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Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
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Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
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Filling a gap in the study of early modern literature, Massimiliano
Morini here exhaustively examines the aims, strategies, practice
and theoretical ideas of the sixteenth-century translator. Morini
analyzes early modern English translations of works by French and
Italian essayists and poets, including Montaigne, Castiglione,
Ariosto and Tasso, and of works by classical writers such as Virgil
and Petrarch. In the process, he demonstrates how connected
translation is with other cultural and literary issues: women as
writers, literary relations between Italy and England, the nature
of the author, and changes in the English language. Since English
Tudor writers, unlike their Italian contemporaries, did not write
theoretical treatises, the author works empirically to extrapolate
the theory that informs the practice of Tudor translation - he
deduces several cogent theoretical principles from the metaphors
and figures of speech used by translators to describe translation.
Employing a good blend of theory and practice, the author presents
the Tudor period as a crucial transitional moment in the history of
translation, from the medieval tradition (which in secular
literature often entailed radical departure from the original) to
the more subtle modern tradition (which prizes the invisibility of
the translator and fluency of the translated text). Morini points
out that this is also a period during which ideas about language
and about the position of England on the political and cultural map
of Europe undergo dramatic change, and he convincingly argues that
the practice of translation changes as new humanistic methods are
adapted to the needs of a country that is expanding its empire.
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