Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages - Academic Traditions and Vernacular Texts

Klappentext This is the first book to consider the rise of translation as part of a broader history of critical discourses from classical Rome to the late Middle Ages! and sheds light on its crucial role in the development of vernacular European culture. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to consider the rise of translation as part of a broader history of critical discourses from classical Rome to the late Middle Ages! and sheds light on its crucial role in the development of vernacular European culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Roman theories of translation: the fusion of grammar and rhetoric; 2. From antiquity to the Middle Ages I: the place of translation and the value of hermeneutics; 3. The rhetorical character of academic commentary; 4. Translation and interlingual commentary: Notker of St Gall and the Ovide moralisé; 5. Translation and intralingual reception: French and English traditions of Boethius' Consolatio; 6. From antiquity to the Middle Ages II: rhetorical invention as hermeneutical performance; 7. Translation as rhetorical invention: Chaucer and Gower; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index of names and titles; General index.

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• Authors: R. Copeland, Rita Copeland
• Assisted by: Alastair Minnis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.1995
• EAN: 9780521483650
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48365-0
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies