UID:
almahu_9949846709602882
Format:
1 online resource (358 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780226830414
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9780226830407
,
9780226830391
,
0-226-83041-1
Content:
No detailed description available for "Fixers".
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Introduction Fixers: Toward an alternative history of translation and literature -- Historical realities: strategy, loyalty, and gift ; The politics of translation: foreign language acquisition, conversion, and colonization (thirteenth- and fourteenth-century crusade treatises) ; The economy of translation: missionaries to the Mongol Empire, pilgrims to the Holy Land, and the gift of languages (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) -- Disciplinary realities: authorship, genre, and literary history ; The ethics of translation: loyalty, commensuration, and literary forms in the fourteenth century (Machaut, Froissart, Mézières) ; Fixer literature: (pseudo)translation and manuscript illumination (the fifteenth-century court of Burgundy) ; The hermeneutics of translation: authorship and genre (the fifteenth-century court of Burgundy) -- Conclusion Fixers: early world literature in the age of the global.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226830391
Language:
English
