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Joel Scott, Translator. The Aesthetics Of Resistance, Volume Ii. By Peter Weiss. Duke Up, 2020., Mona Eikel-Pohen Jun 2022

Joel Scott, Translator. The Aesthetics Of Resistance, Volume Ii. By Peter Weiss. Duke Up, 2020., Mona Eikel-Pohen

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Joel Scott, translator. The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II. By Peter Weiss. Duke UP, 2020. x + 320pp.


Agency And Political Engagement In Gide And Barrault's Post-War Theatrical Adaptation Of Kafka's The Trial, Yevgenya Strakovsky Sep 2017

Agency And Political Engagement In Gide And Barrault's Post-War Theatrical Adaptation Of Kafka's The Trial, Yevgenya Strakovsky

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "Agency and Political Engagement in Gide and Barrault's Post-war Theatrical Adaptation of Kafka's The Trial" Yevgenya Strakovsky considers the political themes of André Gide and Jean-Louis Barrault's Le Procès (The Trial, 1947), the first theatrical adaptation of Franz Kafka's Der Prozess (The Trial, 1914). Strakovsky demonstrates that Le Procès, written and staged in the immediate aftermath of World War II, levels a critique against the passive complicity of citizens in unjust persecution in both its script and its staging. The paper also considers the elements of Kafka's prose that lend themselves to …


Tilting Toward The Light: Translating The Medieval World On The Ming-Mongolian Frontier, Carla Nappi Dec 2015

Tilting Toward The Light: Translating The Medieval World On The Ming-Mongolian Frontier, Carla Nappi

The Medieval Globe

Ming China maintained relationships with neighboring peoples such as the Mongols by educating bureaucrats trained to translate many different foreign languages. While the reference works these men used were designed to facilitate their work, they also conveyed a specific vision of the past and a taxonomy of cultural differences that constitute valuable historical sources in their own right, illuminating the worldview of the Chinese-Mongolian frontier.


Eugene Onegin The Cold War Monument: How Edmund Wilson Quarreled With Vladimir Nabokov, Tim Conley Jan 2014

Eugene Onegin The Cold War Monument: How Edmund Wilson Quarreled With Vladimir Nabokov, Tim Conley

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The tale of how Edmund Wilson quarreled with Vladimir Nabokov over the latter’s 1964 translation of Eugene Onegin can be instructively read as a politically charged event, specifically a “high culture” allegory of the Cold War. Dissemination of anti-Communist ideals (often in liberal and literary guises) was the mandate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, whose funding and editorial initiatives included the publication of both pre-Revolution Russian literature and, more notoriously, the journal Encounter (1953-1990), where Nabokov’s fiery “Reply” to Wilson appeared. This essay outlines the propaganda value of the Onegin debate within and to Cold War mythology.


Boudjedra, Écrivain De Langue Arabe?, Touriya Fili-Tullon Jun 2007

Boudjedra, Écrivain De Langue Arabe?, Touriya Fili-Tullon

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This paper is devoted to bilingualism in R. Boudjedra’sliterary practice. Our aim is to show how French and Arabic versions of his books may be read as hypertexts of metadiscoursive value. Considered from this point of view, the differing versions neutralize any genetic approach and make the rules of an “authoritative” translation obsolete.


Review Essay: Jean Renart: The Romance Of The Rose Or Of Guillaume De Dole (Roman De La Rose Ou De Guillaume De Dole), Kathy M. Krause Jan 1999

Review Essay: Jean Renart: The Romance Of The Rose Or Of Guillaume De Dole (Roman De La Rose Ou De Guillaume De Dole), Kathy M. Krause

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Jean Renart: The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole (Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole). Ed. and trans. Regina Psaki. Garland Library of Medieval Literature 92A. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. xli + 280 pp.


Review Essay: Bodin, Jean. On The Demon-Mania Of Witches, Hans Sebald Jan 1994

Review Essay: Bodin, Jean. On The Demon-Mania Of Witches, Hans Sebald

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Bodin, Jean. On the Demon-Mania of Witches. Trans. Randy A. Scott. Intro. Jonathan L. Pearl. Toronto Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University, 1995. 218 pp. Paperback. U.S.$ 12.00. Cdn$ 15.00.


Review Essay: Barry Tharaud, Trans., Beowulf, Anita Obermeier Jan 1992

Review Essay: Barry Tharaud, Trans., Beowulf, Anita Obermeier

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Barry Tharaud, trans., Beowulf, University of Colorado Press, 1990, 187 pp., ill., map, charts, $14.95.


Review Essay: Robert Levine, Trans., France Before Charlemagne: A Translation From The Grandes Chroniques, Harry Rosenberg Jan 1992

Review Essay: Robert Levine, Trans., France Before Charlemagne: A Translation From The Grandes Chroniques, Harry Rosenberg

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Robert Levine, trans., France before Charlemagne: A Translation from the Grandes Chroniques, Studies in French Civilization 3, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, 287 pp., $89.95.


Review Essay: Juan Luis Vives, The Passions Of The Soul: The Third Book Of De Anima Et Vita, Anthony J. Cárdenas Jan 1992

Review Essay: Juan Luis Vives, The Passions Of The Soul: The Third Book Of De Anima Et Vita, Anthony J. Cárdenas

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Juan Luis Vives, The Passions of the Soul: The Third Book of De Anima et Vita, trans. and intro. by Carlos G. Noreña, Studies in Renaissance Literature 4, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, xv, 121 pp., $49.95


Review Essay: Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation Of The Intercenales, W. Scott Blanchard Jan 1991

Review Essay: Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation Of The Intercenales, W. Scott Blanchard

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Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation of the Intercenales, trans. and ed. David Marsh, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and The Renaissance Society of America, 1987, ix, 268 pp., ill., biblio., index, $20.00.


Review Essay: Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church And Monarchy From The Ninth And Twelfth Century, Glenn W. Olsen Jan 1989

Review Essay: Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church And Monarchy From The Ninth And Twelfth Century, Glenn W. Olsen

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Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.


Review Essay: Umberto Eco, Art And Beauty In The Middle Ages, Martine P. Rey Jan 1988

Review Essay: Umberto Eco, Art And Beauty In The Middle Ages, Martine P. Rey

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Umberto Eco, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, trans. Hugh Bredin, Yale University Press, 1986.


Review Essay: Philippe Contamine, War In The Middle Ages, K. G. Madison Jan 1988

Review Essay: Philippe Contamine, War In The Middle Ages, K. G. Madison

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Philippe Contamine, War in the Middle Ages, trans. Michael Jones, Basil Blackwell, 1984.


Review Essay: Joseph L. Baird (With G. Baglini And J. Kane), The Chronicle Of Salimbene De Adam, Delno C. West Jan 1987

Review Essay: Joseph L. Baird (With G. Baglini And J. Kane), The Chronicle Of Salimbene De Adam, Delno C. West

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Joseph L. Baird (with G. Baglini and J. Kane), The Chronicle of Salimbene de Adam, Binghamton, 1986.


Review Essay: Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff, Medieval Woman's Visionary Literature, Richard J. Panofsky Jan 1987

Review Essay: Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff, Medieval Woman's Visionary Literature, Richard J. Panofsky

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Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff, Medieval Woman's Visionary Literature, Oxford University Press, 1986.


Review Essay: Emile Mâle, Art And Artists Of The Middle Ages, James Finn Cotter Jan 1987

Review Essay: Emile Mâle, Art And Artists Of The Middle Ages, James Finn Cotter

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Emile Mâle, Art and Artists of the Middle Ages, trans. Sylvia Stallings Lowe, Black Swan Books, 1986.


Review Essay: Marta Sordi, The Christians And The Roman Empire, Janine Marie Idziak Jan 1987

Review Essay: Marta Sordi, The Christians And The Roman Empire, Janine Marie Idziak

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Marta Sordi, The Christians and the Roman Empire, University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.


Review Essay: Bernard Guenée, States And Rulers In Later Medieval Europe, De Lamar Jensen Jan 1987

Review Essay: Bernard Guenée, States And Rulers In Later Medieval Europe, De Lamar Jensen

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Bernard Guenée, States and Rulers in Later Medieval Europe, trans. Juliet Vale, Basil Blackwell, 1985.