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Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance (Hardcover)
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Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
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New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering
in particular its reception and transmission. Romance was the most
popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been
understood most productively as a genre that continually
refashioned itself. The essays collected in this volume explore the
subject of translation, both linguistic and cultural, in relation
to the composition, reception, and dissemination of romance across
the languages of late medieval Britain, Ireland, and Iceland. In
taking this multilingual approach, this volume proposes a
re-centring, and extension, of our understanding of the corpus of
medieval Insular romance, which although long considered
extra-canonical, has over the previous decades acquired something
approaching its own canon - a canon which we might now begin to
unsettle, and of which we might ask new questions. The topics of
the essays gathered here range from Dafydd ap Gwilym and Walter Map
to Melusine and English Trojan narratives, and address topics from
women and merchants to werewolves and marvels. Together, they
position the study of romance in translation in relation to
cross-border and cross-linguistic transmission and reception; and
alongside the generic re-imaginings of romance, both early and
late, that implicate romance in new linguistic, cultural, and
social networks. The volume also shows how, even where linguistic
translation is not involved, we can understand the ways in which
romance moved across cultural and social boundaries and
incorporated elements of different genres into its own capacious
and malleable frame as types of translatio - in terms of learning,
or power, or both.
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