Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance
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- ISBN 9781843846208
- Weight: 552g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2022
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission.
Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned itself. The essays collected in this volume explore the subject of translation, both linguistic and cultural, in relation to the composition, reception, and dissemination of romance across the languages of late medieval Britain, Ireland, and Iceland. In taking this multilingual approach, this volume proposes a re-centring, and extension, of our understanding of the corpus of medieval Insular romance, which although long considered extra-canonical, has over the previous decades acquired something approaching its own canon - a canon which we might now begin to unsettle, and of which we might ask new questions.
The topics of the essays gathered here range from Dafydd ap Gwilym and Walter Map to Melusine and English Trojan narratives, and address topics from women and merchants to werewolves and marvels. Together, they position the study of romance in translation in relation to cross-border and cross-linguistic transmission and reception; and alongside the generic re-imaginings of romance, both early and late, that implicate romance in new linguistic, cultural, and social networks. The volume also shows how, even where linguistic translation is not involved, we can understand the ways in which romance moved across cultural and social boundaries and incorporated elements of different genres into its own capacious and malleable frame as types of translatio - in terms of learning, or power, or both.
VICTORIA FLOOD is Associate Professor in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. MEGAN G. LEITCH is the Professor and Chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. VICTORIA FLOOD is Associate Professor in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. MEGAN G. LEITCH is the Professor and Chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. Helen Fulton is Chair of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham, UK. CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.
