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John Gower, Trilingual Poet - Language, Translation, and Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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John Gower, Trilingual Poet - Language, Translation, and Tradition (Hardcover, New)
Series: Westfield Medieval Studies
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New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of
medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices
he used and the discourses in which he participated. John Gower
wrote in three languages - Latin, French, and English - and their
considerable and sometimes competing significance in
fourteenth-century England underlies his trilingualism. The essays
collected in this volume start from Gower as trilingual poet,
exploring Gower's negotiations between them - his adaptation of
French sources into his Latin poetry, for example - as well as the
work of medieval translators who made Gower's French poetry
availablein English. "Translation" is also considered more broadly,
as a "carrying over" (its etymological sense) between genres,
registers, and contexts, with essays exploring Gower's acts of
translation between the idioms of varied literary and non-literary
forms; and further essays investigate Gower's writings from
literary, historical, linguistic, and codicological perspectives.
Overall, the volume bears witness to Gower's merit and his
importance to English literary history, and increases our
understanding of French and Latin literature composed in England;
it also makes it possible to understand and to appreciate fully the
shape and significance of Gower's literary achievement and
influence, which have sometimes suffered in comparison to Chaucer.
ELISABETH DUTTON is Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Contributors: Elisabeth Dutton, Jean Pascal Pouzet, Ethan Knapp,
Carolyn P. Collette,Elliot Kendall, Robert R. Edwards, George
Shuffleton, Nigel Saul, David Carlson, Candace Barrington, Andreea
Boboc, Tamara F. O'Callaghan, Stephanie Batkie, Karla Taylor, Brian
Gastle, Matthew Irvin, Peter Nicholson, J.A. Burrow,Holly
Barbaccia, Kim Zarins, Richard F. Green, Cathy Hume, John Bowers,
Andrew Galloway, R.F. Yeager, Martha Driver
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