Politics of Translation in the Middle Age - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0776605275 ISBN 13 : 9780776605272

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press, 2001

Synopsis

The articles in this collection focus on politics in the widest sense and its influence and visibility in translations from the early Middle Ages to the late Renaissance. Medievalists and Renaissance scholars discuss the "cultural turn" in translation studies, which approaches translation as an activity that is powerfully affected by its socio-political context and the demands of the translating culture. The links made between culture, politics, and translation in these texts highlight the impact of ideological and political forces on cultural transfer in early European thought. While the personalities of powerful thinkers and translators such as Erasmus, Etienne Dolet, Montaigne, and Leo Africanus play into these texts, historical events and intellectual fashions are equally important: moments such as the Hundred Years War, whose events were partially recorded in translation by Jean Froissart; the Political tussles around the issues of lay readers and rewriters of biblical texts; the theological and philosophical shift from scholasticism to Renaissance relativism; or European relations with the Muslim world add to the interest of these articles. Throughout this volume, translation is treated as a form of writing, as the production of text and meaning, carried out in a certain cultural and political ambiance, and for identifiable - though not always stated - reasons. No translation, this collection argues, is an innocent, transparent rendering of the original. Published in English.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Ottawa Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0776605275
• ISBN 13: 9780776605272
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Blumenfeld-Kosinski Renate, Von Flotow Luise, Russell Daniel
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