Dr Emma Campbell (Associate Professor / Reader in the School of Moder

Reinventing Babel in Medieval French

Translation and Untranslatability (C. 1120-C. 1250)

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on case studies from the francophone cultures of Flanders, England, and northern France, this volume explores how medieval texts challenge modern definitions of language, text, and translation.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9780192871718
• ISBN-10: 0192871714
• Artikelnr.: 67865097

Autorenporträt

Emma Campbell is Associate Professor/Reader in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick. Focusing on the francophone literary cultures of the Middle Ages, her work explores how contemporary approaches can be brought into dialogue with medieval texts. She has published on a range of works prior to the fourteenth century, including major traditions such as saints' lives and bestiaries. She is the author of Medieval Saints' Lives: The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography (2008) and co-editor of two further books, including Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Reinventing Babel: Translation and Untranslatability in
Medieval French Texts
* 1: Cultivating Difference: Translation and 'Remainder' in Wauchier de
Denain's L'Histoire des Moines d'Egypte
* 2: Spiritual Translatio in the French Lives of Saint Catherine of
Alexandria: Gender and Hagiographic Translation
* 3: Translation, Memory, and the Limits of Translatability in the
Writing of Marie de France
* 4: Translatio and the Afterlives of Translation in Chrétien de
Troyes' Cligés
* 5: Monolingualism, Absolute Translation, and Linguistic Mastery in
Franco-English Jargon Texts: Jehan et Blonde and Renart teinturier
* 6: Translating Nature in French Verse Bestiaries: Translation and/as
Ontology
* Conclusion