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The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English - Volume 1: To 1550 (Hardcover, New)
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The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English - Volume 1: To 1550 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, 1
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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 athousand years of translation activity in
England.
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