The Middle English Text of Caxton's Ovid, Books II-III: Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, Old Library, MS F.4.34 with a Parallel Text of The ... Bibliotheque Nationale, MS fonds francais 137 - Couverture souple

 
9783825365943: The Middle English Text of Caxton's Ovid, Books II-III: Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, Old Library, MS F.4.34 with a Parallel Text of The ... Bibliotheque Nationale, MS fonds francais 137
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ISBN 10 : 3825365948 ISBN 13 : 9783825365943
Editeur : Universitatsverlag Winter, 2016

Synopsis

William Caxton completed his English translation of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in 1480 in Westminster. It is, however, not based on the Latin original, but on a moralized, that is, allegorized French version, the so-called 'Ovide moralise en prose II'. There the stories and transformations are first told and then usually provided with an allegorical explanation. Caxton translated the French text fairly literally on the whole, but he was very fond of binomials and adopted them not only from his source, but also introduced many new ones. Diana Rumrich's edition of Book I was published in 2011 as MET 43, and now Wolfgang Mager offers a critical edition of Books II-III together with the French source, as well as an introduction, commentary, index of names, glossary and bibliography.This volume is the second in a series designed to edit the whole of 'Caxton's Ovid'.

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Éditeur
Universitatsverlag Winter
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3825365948
ISBN 13 
9783825365943
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
Éditeur
Mager Wolfgang
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