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THE OXFORD HISTORY OF LITERARY TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH
VOLUME 1: TO 1550 |
| By: |
Roger Ellis (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£235.00 |
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£235.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199246203 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199246205 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 March, 2008 |
| Series: |
Oxford History of Literary Translation in English 1 |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Description: |
Translation has played a vital part in the history of literature throughout the English-speaking world. Offering for the first time a comprehensive view of this phenomenon, this pioneering five-volume work casts a vivid new light on the history of English literature. Incorporating critical discussion of translations, it explores the changing nature and function of translation and the social and intellectual milieu of the translators. |
| Synopsis: |
THE OXFORD HISTORY OF LITERARY TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH General Editors: Peter France and Stuart Gillespie This groundbreaking five-volume history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers. It thus offers new and often challenging perspectives on the history of literature in English. As well as examining the translations and their wider impact, it explores the processes by which they came into being and were disseminated, and provides extensive bibliographical and biographical reference material. Volume 1 of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English originates with what medievalists have long known, that virtually everything written in the Middle Ages in English can be regarded, one way or another, as a translation, and that medieval understandings of what constitutes literature were significantly more generous than many modern ones.It uses modern as well as medieval understandings of translation to inform its discussions (the two understandings have a great deal in common), and it aims to situate medieval translation in English as fully as possible in its various cultural contexts: this includes, in particular, the complicated inter-relations of translation throughout the period into Latin, and (for the Middle English period) of translation in French. Since it also understands the Middle Ages of its title as including the first half of the sixteenth century, it studies what has survived of nearly a thousand years of translation activity in England. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the 2008 Wheatley Medal for an outstanding index. |
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