Thresholds of Translation by Marie-Alice Belle

Thresholds of Translation by Marie-Alice Belle

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Thresholds of Translation by Marie-Alice Belle

This volume revisits Genette’s definition of the printed book’s liminal devices, or paratexts, as ‘thresholds of interpretation’ by focussing specifically on translations produced in Britain in the early age of print (1473-1660). At a time when translation played a major role in shaping English and Scottish literary culture, paratexts afforded translators and their printers a privileged space in which to advertise their activities, display their social and ideological affiliations, influence literary tastes, and fashion Britain’s representations of the cultural ‘other’. Written by an international team of scholars of translation and material culture, the ten essays in the volume examine the various material shapes, textual forms, and cultural uses of paratexts as markers (and makers) of cultural exchange in early modern Britain.  The collection will be of interest to scholars of early modern translation, print, and literary culture, and, more broadly, to those studying the material and cultural aspects of text production and circulation in early modern Europe.

Marie-Alice Belle is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the Université de Montréal, Canada, and Associate Researcher in English studies at the Université Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle, France.

Brenda M. Hosington is Professor of Translation Studies at the Université de Montréal, Canada, and Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, UK.

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ISBN 13 9783030102654
ISBN 10 3030102653
Title Thresholds of Translation
Author Marie-Alice Belle
Series Early Modern Literature In History
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year published 2019-01-26
Number of pages 327
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