Early Modern Cultures of Translation /

Early Modern Cultures of Translation / / ed. by Karen Newman, Jane Tylus.

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"Would there have been a Renaissance without translation?" Karen Newman and Jane Tylus ask in their Introduction to this wide-ranging group of essays on the uses of translation in an era formative for the modern age. The early modern period saw cross-cultural translation on a massive scale...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
MitwirkendeR:
Braden, Gordon,
Burke, Peter,
Coldiron, A. E. B.,
Cottegnies, Line,
Ferguson, Margaret,
Grossman, Edith,
Jones, Ann Rosalind,
Kontler, László,
Lezra, Jacques,
Nappi, Carla,
Newman, Karen,
Piechocki, Katharina N.,
Rivett, Sarah,
Tadmor, Naomi,
Tylus, Jane,
HerausgeberIn:
Newman, Karen,
Tylus, Jane,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 16 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Translating the Language of Architecture
  • Chapter 2. Translating the Rest of Ovid: Th e Exile Poems
  • Chapter 3. Macaronic Verse, Plurilingual Printing, and the Uses of Translation
  • Chapter 4. Erroneous Mappings: Ptolemy and the Visualization of Europe’s East
  • Chapter 5. Taking Out the Women: Louise Labé’s Folie in Robert Greene’s Translation
  • Chapter 6. Translation and Homeland Insecurity in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: An Experiment in Unsafe Reading
  • Chapter 7. On Contingency in Translation
  • Chapter 8. The Social and Cultural Translation of the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern England: Reflections, Working Principles, and Examples
  • Chapter 9. Conversion, Communication, and Translation in the Seventeenth-Century Protestant Atlantic
  • Chapter 10. Full. Empty. Stop. Go.: Translating Miscellany in Early Modern China
  • Chapter 11. Katherine Philips’s Pompey (1663); or the Importance of Being a Translator
  • Chapter 12. Translating Scottish Stadial History: William Robertson in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
  • Coda: Translating Cervantes Today
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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