Rhetoric, hermeneutics, and translation in the Middle Ages : academic traditions and vernacular texts / Rita Copeland
1991, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425868
ISBN: 0521385172
Physical description; xiv, 295 pages : illustrations. Notes; Include bibliographical references (p. 267-285) and indexes. Contents; Roman theories of translation: the fusion of grammar and rhetoric -- From antiquity to the Middle Ages I: the place of translation and the value of hermeneutics -- The rhetorical character of academic commentary -- Translation and interlingual commentary: Notker of St. Gall and the Ovide moralisé -- Translation and the intralingual reception: French and English traditions of Boethius' Consolatio -- From antiquity to the Middle Ages II: rhetorical invention as hermeneutical performance -- Translation as rhetorical invention: Chaucer and Gower. Subjects; To 1500. Latin literature, Medieval and modern Translations History and criticism. Latin literature Translations History and criticism Theory, etc. Translating and interpreting Europe History To 1500. Latin language Translating History To 1500. Academic writing History To 1500. Rhetoric, Medieval. Hermeneutics.
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