Reinventing Babel in Medieval French - Translation and Untranslatability (C. 1120-C. 1250)

Drawing on case studies from the francophone cultures of Flanders, England, and northern France, this volume explores how medieval texts challenge modern definitions of language, text, and translation.

List of contents

• Introduction: Reinventing Babel: Translation and Untranslatability in Medieval French Texts


• 1: Cultivating Difference: Translation and 'Remainder' in Wauchier de Denain's L'Histoire des Moines d'Egypte


• 2: Spiritual Translatio in the French Lives of Saint Catherine of Alexandria: Gender and Hagiographic Translation


• 3: Translation, Memory, and the Limits of Translatability in the Writing of Marie de France


• 4: Translatio and the Afterlives of Translation in Chrétien de Troyes' Cligés


• 5: Monolingualism, Absolute Translation, and Linguistic Mastery in Franco-English Jargon Texts: Jehan et Blonde and Renart teinturier


• 6: Translating Nature in French Verse Bestiaries: Translation and/as Ontology


• Conclusion

About the author

Emma Campbell is Associate Professor/Reader in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick. Focusing on the francophone literary cultures of the Middle Ages, her work explores how contemporary approaches can be brought into dialogue with medieval texts. She has published on a range of works prior to the fourteenth century, including major traditions such as saints' lives and bestiaries. She is the author of Medieval Saints' Lives: The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography (2008) and co-editor of two further books, including Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory (2012).

Summary

Drawing on case studies from the francophone cultures of Flanders, England, and northern France, this volume explores how medieval texts challenge modern definitions of language, text, and translation.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Emma (Associate Professor/reader in t Campbell, Emma Campbell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2023
• EAN: 9780192871718
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287171-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Translation and interpretation