English Translation and Classical Reception: Towards a New Literary History (Classical Receptions) - Hardcover

Gillespie, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405199016 ISBN 13: 9781405199018

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present.

• The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical reception
• Draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of English literary translation from the early Renaissance to the present
• Argues for a remapping of English literary history which would take proper account of the currently neglected history of classical translation, from Chaucer to the present
• Offers a widely ranging chronological analysis of English translation from ancient literatures
• Previously little-known, unknown, and sometimes suppressed translated texts are recovered from manuscripts and explored in terms of their implications for English literary history and for the interpretation of classical literature
  
  
  

 

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

THE AUTHOR

STUART GILLESPIE is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. His recent publications include Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources (2001), Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture, edited with Neil Rhodes (2006), and The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, edited with Philip Hardie (2007). He edits the journal Translation and Literature and is co-editor of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

CLASSICAL RECEPTION

ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND CLASSICAL RECEPTION
TOWARDS A NEW LITERARY HISTORY

This first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical reception engages with the dialogues generated between individual translations and their source-texts, but also with the wide and deep tradition to which they belong. Mixing survey chapters with case studies, English Translation and Classical Reception threads its way from Shakespeare to the late twentieth century.

As lead editor of the first history of English literary translation, Gillespie has been a major force in recovering the remarkable and extensive history of translators' engagements with the classics over the centuries. This book focuses on the implications both for English literary history and for classical scholarship. But Gillespie then goes on to dig down to a new level of historical rediscovery in his analysis of a range of forgotten, unpublished, and suppressed classical translations by writers across the centuries. This important text will mark a change in the way in which the English reception of classical literature is viewed and studied.

Aus dem Klappentext

CLASSICAL RECEPTION

ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND CLASSICAL RECEPTION
TOWARDS A NEW LITERARY HISTORY

This first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical reception engages with the dialogues generated between individual translations and their source-texts, but also with the wide and deep tradition to which they belong. Mixing survey chapters with case studies, English Translation and Classical Reception threads its way from Shakespeare to the late twentieth century.

As lead editor of the first history of English literary translation, Gillespie has been a major force in recovering the remarkable and extensive history of translators' engagements with the classics over the centuries. This book focuses on the implications both for English literary history and for classical scholarship. But Gillespie then goes on to dig down to a new level of historical rediscovery in his analysis of a range of forgotten, unpublished, and suppressed classical translations by writers across the centuries. This important text will mark a change in the way in which the English reception of classical literature is viewed and studied.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1405199016
• ISBN 13: 9781405199018
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland