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Author:
Hurley, Mary Kate, author.
Title:
Translation effects : language, time, and community in medieval England / Mary Kate Hurley.
Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xii, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
450-1100
English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--Old English.
Literature, Medieval--Translations.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index.
Contents:
What Orosius said: temporal heterogeneity in the Old English Orosius -- Sanctity and soil: Ælfrics life of Oswald, king and martyr -- Communities of the page in the Ælfrician homiletic corpus -- Becoming England: The Northumbrian conversion in Trevet, Gower, and Chaucer -- Beowulfs collectivities.
Summary:
"Reinterprets the translation of medieval texts such as Orosius, Ælfrics Lives of Saints, Ælfrics Homilies, Chaucer, Trevet, Gower, and Beowulf, through translation effects, observable traces which show how writers reimagined the political, cultural, and linguistic communities in which their texts were consumed"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
ISBN:
0814214711
9780814214718
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1238128380
LCCN:
2021003037
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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