Collaborative Translation and Multi-Version Texts in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138275256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 196 str.

Belen Bistue

Opis

Focusing on team translation and the production of multilingual editions, and on the difficulties these techniques created for Renaissance translation theory, this book interrogates textual practices that were widespread in medieval and Renaissance Europe but have been excluded from translation and literary history. Comparing actual translation texts and strategies with the forceful theoretical demands for unity that characterize the reflections of early modern translators, the author challenges assumptions frequently made in translation and literary analysis.

Recenzje

'...a richly detailed challenge to some cherished idées fixes. The book poses the act of translation as a collaborative and/or serial practice that challenges not only medieval and early modern theorists’ efforts to stabilize and codify translation, but also modern critical efforts to read translations in certain ways (as non-authorial, as products of singular agency, as invisible). The author presents as chief evidence multilingual books and multi-version books, both manuscript and printed codices, and the range of these is wonderful to behold.' A.E.B. Coldiron, Florida State University '... a unique and truly innovative study in translation and premodern literary studies.' Publishing Research Quarterly '[Bistué's] facility with a range of materials that jump across centuries, borders, and subject matter is equally impressive and her findings should reinvigorate literary and translation studies of this period.' SHARP News

Spis treści

Introduction: Collaborative Practices, Multi-Version Texts, and the Difficulty of Thinking Translation; Chapter 1 Res difficilis; Chapter 2 Unthinkable Practices; Chapter 3 Unthinkable Texts; Chapter 4 Translation as a Discredited Text-Model in Early Modern Fiction; epilogue Epilogue: Imagining Translation in Early Modern Europe;

O autorze

Belén Bistué is Tenured Researcher for CONICET, and Assistant Professor of British and North American Literature at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.