Translating: A Journey in Time
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Maria Grazia Cammarota - University of Bergamo - email orcid profile
Abstract
The translation of a text belonging to a culturally distant age is like a journey across time: relying on the guidance of a translator, the new readers can delve into the past and explore a world that otherwise would remain accessible only to a restricted number of experts. Through examples from medieval Germanic texts, the papers collected in this volume offer significant insights into the specific role played by philology in the field of ‘intertemporal translation’, thus casting light on the central function, especially in the current cultural situation, of a discipline that values the ability of ‘reading slowly’ and a respectful approach towards the datum.
Keywords Tolkien • Transcodification • Rewriting • Seamus Heaney • Soul-and-body literature • Translation • Genre • Verba seniorum • Exile • Editorial work • Beowulf • Theory and practice of translation • Old Icelandic literature • Áns saga bogsveigis • Old Norwegian • The Wife’s Lament • Intertemporal Translation • Old English • Medieval Sweden • Courtly Ideology • Hwæt-hypotheses • Translation Studies • William Morris • Fornaldarsögur • Kingship • Anglo-Saxon England • Chancey Brewster Tinker • Translation Theory • Landslov • Law • Legal translation • Translation practice • Literal or figurative • Ovid’s Metamorphoses • Old Norse • R • John Porter • Old and Middle High German • Aristocratic Identity • Medieval German Literature • Hermann of Thuringia • Ælfric of Eynsham • Albrecht von Halberstadt • J
Thema codes CFP • DSBB • CFN • 3KL
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-248-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-248-2 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-250-5 | Published May 24, 2018 | Language en, it
Subseries Serie occidentale e-ISSN 2610-9441 ISSN 2610-945X
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