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Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226830407)
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xA new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures.
In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: the fixer. With this language, Stahuljak captures the diverse, active roles medieval translators and interpreters played as mediators of entire cultures--insider informants, local guides, knowledge brokers, art distributors, and political players. Fixers offers nothing less than a new history of literature, art, translation, and social exchange from the perspective not of the author or state but of the fixer.
Author: Zrinka Stahuljak
ISBN-10: 0226830403
ISBN-13: 9780226830407
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2024
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: the fixer. With this language, Stahuljak captures the diverse, active roles medieval translators and interpreters played as mediators of entire cultures--insider informants, local guides, knowledge brokers, art distributors, and political players. Fixers offers nothing less than a new history of literature, art, translation, and social exchange from the perspective not of the author or state but of the fixer.
Author: Zrinka Stahuljak
ISBN-10: 0226830403
ISBN-13: 9780226830407
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2024
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Zrinka Stahuljak
xZrinka Stahuljak is professor of comparative literature and French at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of seven books, including, most recently, The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East.
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