Fixers

Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Zrinka Stahuljak

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A 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-16
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt594 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor358
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226830391

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List of FiguresOn Translations and TerminologyIntroduction Fixers: Toward an Alternative History of Translation and LiteraturePart I. Historical Realities: Strategy, Loyalty, and GiftOne The Politics of Translation: Foreign Language Acquisition, Conversion, and Colonization (Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Crusade Treatises)Two The Economy of Translation: Missionaries to the Mongol Empire, Pilgrims to the Holy Land, and the Gift of Languages (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)Part II. Disciplinary Realities: Authorship, Genre, and Literary HistoryThree The Ethics of Translation: Loyalty, Commensuration, and Literary Forms in the Fourteenth Century (Machaut, Froissart, Mézières)Four Fixer Literature: (Pseudo)Translation and Manuscript Illumination (the Fifteenth-Century Court of Burgundy)Five The Hermeneutics of Translation: Authorship and Genre (the Fifteenth-Century Court of Burgundy)Conclusion Fixers: Early World Literature in the Age of the GlobalAcknowledgmentsAppendixesNotesBibliographyIndex

"Fixers is an erudite, ambitious book that synthesizes concepts from medieval studies and modern translation theory, offering salutary reading for students and scholars of both. It offers an exciting lens for reading the work of fixer-travelers and translators across the medieval world – from Chaucer, who worked by day as a customs official and diplomat, to Arabic-language travel writers such as Ibn Fadlan and Ibn Batutta."