1st Edition
Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000)
Edited By Mike Pincombe
Copyright 2004
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years the twin themes of travel and translation have come to be regarded as particularly significant to the study of early modern culture and literature. Traditional notions of 'The Renaissance' have always emphasised the importance of the influence of continental, as well as classical, literature on English writers of the period; and over the past twenty years or so this emphasis has... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Arthur F. Kinney. Travels: Travailing abroad: the poet as adventurer, Elizabeth Heale; Painful pilgrimage: 16th-century English travellers to Greece, Efterpi Mitsi; Foreign bodies: politics, polemic, and the continental landscape, Cathy Shrank; Representing Rome and the self in Anthony Munday's The English Roman Life, Melanie Ord. Translations: The European transmission of caritas in More's Dialogue of Comfort, Benedek Péter Tóta; Translatio Mori: Ellis Heywood's 'Thomas More', Mark Robson; Translation and the definition of sovereignty: the case of Elizabeth Tudor, Georgia E. Brown; Italian weeds and English bodies: translating 'The Adventures of Master F.J.', Amina Alyal; Sir John Harington and the poetics of Tudor translation, Massimiliano Morini; Richard the Redeless: representations of Richard II from Boccaccio and Polydore to Holinshed and Shakespeare, Roy Rosenstein; Afterword, Mike Pincombe; Bibliography; Index.
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Mike Pincombe
