Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Culture and Translation - Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick 2. Philosophy and Translation - Anthony Pym (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) 3. Linguistics and Translation - Gunilla Anderman (University of Surrey) 4. History and Translation - Lynne Long (University of Warwick) 5. Literary Translation - Theo Hermans (University College London) 6. Gender and Translation - Luise von Flotow (University of Ottawa) 7. Screen Translation - Eithne O'Connell (Dublin City University) 8. Theatre and Opera Translation - Mary Snell-Hornby (Universitat Wien) 9. Politics and Translation - Christina Schaffner (Aston University, Birmingham)BibliographyIndex

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A Companion to Translation Studies

This broad-ranging study explores the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England and sets it in its political and constitutional context for the first time. Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic relationship between nationality and subjecthood in the king of England's domains, a sense of English identity was deeply embedded in the mindset of a significant section of political society. Using previously neglected official records as well as familiar literary sources, the book reassesses the role of the English language in fourteenth-century national sentiment and questions the traditional reliance on the English vernacular as an index of national feeling. Positioning national identity as central to our understanding of late medieval society, culture, religion and politics, the book represents a significant contribution not only to the political history of late medieval England, but also to the growing debate on the nature and origins of states, nations and nationalism in Europe.

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English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century

Author(s): Rosenberg-Wohl, David Michael | Advisor(s): Gruen, Erich S | Abstract: AbstractReconstructing Jewish Identity on the Foundations of Hellenistic History:Azariah de' Rossi's Me'or `Enayim in Late 16th Century Northern ItalybyDavid Michael Rosenberg-WohlDoctor of Philosophy in Jewish Studiesandthe Graduate Theological UnionProfessor Erich S. Gruen, ChairMe'or `Enayim is conventionally considered to be early modern Jewish history. Recent scholarship tends to consider the work Renaissance historiography, Counter-Reformation apology or some combination of the two. The approach to date has focused primarily upon the third and most sizeable part of Me'or `Enayim, the sixty-chapter "Words of Understanding".In this dissertation, I seek to state a claim to the purpose for the work, a chimerical task. I argue that Azariah de' Rossi wrote Me'or `Enayim neither as history nor as apology but rather to articulate his vision of a new Jewish identity for the Jews of his time and place - late 16th century northern Italy. Recognizing the dominant Christian cultural embrace of the Roman empire and the concomitant Jewish opposition to Rome, de' Rossi felt that the pressure of the Counter-Reformation left Jews with no viable way to be relevant to contemporary Italian culture while remaining Jewish. He proposed abandoning the account of the Jewish interaction with Rome, an account long contested by Christianity, and replacing it with the honor accorded Judaism by Greece, specifically the Hellenistic empire. Key to that enterprise was emphasizing the role in Jewish history of Alexander the Great, Ptolemy Philadelphus and even Gaius Caligula (a Hellenistic monarch by virtue of the fact that he reigned before the destruction of the Second Temple and the advent of the Roman empire).This purpose accounts for much that is puzzling about Me'or `Enayim. It explains why the book focuses upon Hellenistic history in general and upon the sources Aristeas, Philo and Josephus in particular. It explains why Roman history is either dismissed, in the case of Livy, or discounted, in the case of the Rabbinic midrashim accounting for the death of Titus by a divinely dispatched gnat. It explains why the work is comprised of three parts, for political identity is composed of a past, a present and a future.Most of all, I believe, my approach explains how both strains of current scholarship - the historians and the apologists - are right, but only in part. It is true that de' Rossi is interested in what actually happened: he takes the time to establish the Hellenistic respect for Jews, their priests and their Temple. And it is true that de' Rossi is eager to discard Rabbinic midrashim dressed up as history that can be debunked: for de' Rossi, Rabbinic midrashim are vital as ethical lessons, lessons of hope. But de' Rossi's interest in history is selective, and not simply because as a religious Jew he is incapable of removing God as a causal agent. De' Rossi privileges Hellenistic history over Roman history because while the latter is useless to Jews of his age, the former is revitalizing.De' Rossi's Me'or `Enayim is about the usefulness of history - namely, history in support of identity. In that, it is fruitful to think of Me'or `Enayim not simply as a Renaissance work of humanism or of a Counter-Reformation work of apology. It is also, and perhaps primarily, a Jewish work in the spirit of the Protestant Reformation's rearticulation of the religious past.

Reconstructing Jewish Identity on the Foundations of Hellenistic History: Azariah de' Rossi's Me'or 'Enayim in Late 16th Century Northern Italy

While Judith Butler’s concept of the heterosexual matrix is dominant in gender and sexuality studies, it is a curiously aspatial and atemporal concept. This paper seeks to re-embed it within space ...

The Heterosexual Matrix as Imperial Effect

Cette these presente une etude historique des traductions et imitations britanniques du livre IV de l’Eneide de Virgile aux XVIe et XVIIe siecles, depuis l’Eneados de Gavin Douglas [1513] jusqu’au Dryden’s Virgil de 1697. A travers une etude comparative des traductions successives de l’episode, on y degage les transformations de la notion d’ imitation comme modele de la traduction litteraire au cours de la periode. A une conception de la traduction dominee au XVIe siecle par le modele rhetorique antique de l’imitatio, et par le souci de developper l’epopee vernaculaire sur le modele virgilien, succede dans la premiere moitie du XVIIe siecle une definition specifique de l’imitation comme modalite de la traduction libre. Dans un contexte de crise politique et de competition entre les differentes versions de l’episode, les “imitations” deviennent le lieu de prises de position ideologiques et esthetiques, dans des interpretations contrastees du modele epique virgilien. Les reecritures du livre IV de l’Eneide qui marquent le second XVIIe siecle temoignent d’un certain eclatement de la notion d’ imitation, qui designe a la fois les reecritures satiriques et parodiques de l’episode, et l’entreprise de fondation culturelle et esthetique de l’âge “augusteen”. Au modele hermeneutique herite des traducteurs humanistes se substitue alors avec Dryden une conception esthetique de la traduction litteraire comme mimesis artistique. L’etude associe l’analyse des strategies formelles et interpretatives propres a chaque traduction a une reflexion sur la reception britannique de l’Eneide et offre des elements de methode pour l’analyse historique des traductions sur la longue duree.

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Traduction et imitation dans les Iles Britanniques aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles : les métamorphoses du livre IV de l'Énéide de Virgile [1513-1697]

The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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