Reinventing Babel in medieval French : translation and untranslatability (c. 1120-c. 1250) /
"How can untranslatability help us to think about the historical as well as the cultural and linguistic dimensions of translation? For the past two centuries, theoretical debates about translation have responded to the idea that translation overcomes linguistic and cultural incommensurability w...
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: reinventing Babel
- translation and untranslatability in medieval French texts
- Cultivating difference : translation and 'Remainder' in Wauchier de Denain's L'Histoire des Moines d'Egypte
- Spiritual Translatio in the French lives of Saint Catherine of Alexandria : gender and hagiographic translation
- Translation, memory, and the limits of translatability in the writing of Marie de France
- Translatio and the afterlives of translation in Chrétien de Troyes' Cligés
- Monolingualism, absolute translation, and linguistic mastery in Franco-English Jargon texts : Jehan et Blonde and Renart teinturier
- Translating nature in French verse bestiaries: translation and/as ontology
- Conclusion.