The Oxford history of literary translation in english Vol. 2 1550-1660

Volume 2 explores the period when a drive, unprecedented in its energy and scope, to bring foreign writing of all kinds into English emerged, and when translation became a key part of the English writer's career. Translation was alsofundamental in the evolution of the still unfixed English language and its still unfixed literary styles. INDICE: General Editors' Foreword; List of Contributors; Abbreviations;Preface; 1. The Corpus of Translations and their Place in the Literary and Cultural World, 1550-1660; 1.1: Gordon Braden: An Overview; 1.2: Louis Kelly: Pedagogical Uses of Translation; 1.3: Danielle Clarke: Translation and the English Language; 1.4: Louis Kelly: Translation and Religious Belief; 1.5: Robert Cummings: Translation and Literary Innovation; 2. Translators and their Milieux; 2.1: Brenda M. Hosington: Commerce, Printing, and Patronage; 2.2: Gillian Wright: Translating at Leisure: Gentlemen and Gentlewomen; 2.3: Case Studies; Stuart Gillespie: George Chapman; Helen Moore: Anthony Munday; Gillian Wright: Mary Sidney Pembroke; Stuart Gillespie: Thomas Stanley; 3. Approaches and Attitudes to Translation; 3.1: Gordon Braden: Translating Procedures in Theory and Practice; 3.2: Robert Cummings: Dictionaries and Commentaries; 3.3: A. E. B. Coldiron: Commonplaces and Metaphors; 4. The Bible and Biblical Commentary; 4.1: Andrew Taylor: The Bible; 4.2: Donald Mackenzie: The Psalms; 4.3: Andrew Taylor: Biblical Commentary; 5. Non-Dramatic Verse; 5.1: Gordon Braden: Epic Kinds; 5.2: Alastair Fowler: Didactic Kinds; 5.3: Glyn Pursglove: Moral Kinds; 5.4: Joshua Scodel: Lyric; 5.5: G. W. Pigman III: Pastoral and Idyll; 6. Drama; 6.1: Gordon Braden: Tragedy; 6.2: Gordon Braden: Comedy; 6.3: G.W. Pigman III: Pastoral Drama; 7. History and Politics; 7.1: Robin Sowerby: Ancient History; 7.2: Gordon Braden: Biography; 7.3: Peter Burke: Modern History and Politics; 8. Prose Fiction; 8.1: Helen Moore: Ancient and Modern Romance; 8.2: Robert Maslen: Realism; 8.3: Robert H. F. Carver: Prose Satire; 9. Moral, Philosophical, and Devotional Prose; 9.1: Robert Cummings: Classical Moralists and Philosophers; 9.2: Robert Cummings: Modern Philosophical and Moral Writing; 9.3: Robert Cummings: Mirrors for Policy; 9.4: Alison Shell: Spiritual and Devotional Prose; 10. The Translators: Biographical Sketches; General Bibliography of Translations; Bibliographical Index to Source Authors; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-924621-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 616
• Fecha Publicación: 02/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés