{"product_id":"vernacular-edens-tropes-of-translation-in-medieval-european-fictions-hardback-9781487558307","title":"Vernacular Edens; Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions (Hardback) 9781487558307","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVernacular Edens\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSimone Marchesi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487558307\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate-medieval European vernacular literature defined itself as the redeployment of classical and post-classical antecedents in new cultural coordinates. Many authors of narrative and poetic fiction between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries resisted the idea that moving a text from one language to another produces a loss of meaning, or, as today's idiom goes, that something always gets \"lost in translation.\" Rather, they understood the process of vernacular translation as a regenerative cultural practice and often associated it with depictions of luscious and paradisal gardens in their works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVernacular Edens\u003c\/em\u003e presents a systematic study of a literary commonplace, the representation of gardens in medieval fictions, as a lens to understand the theories and practices of translation from Latin to the vernaculars. The book argues that the prominent narrative space that works composed in Old French, Italian, and Middle English give to garden-visit scenes is connected to their vindication of translation as an always-enriching practice. A wide range of texts from Marie de France's \u003cem\u003eLais \u003c\/em\u003eto the \u003cem\u003eRoman de la Rose\u003c\/em\u003e, from Dante's \u003cem\u003eComedy\u003c\/em\u003e to Boccaccio's \u003cem\u003eDecameron\u003c\/em\u003e, and from Petrarch's \u003cem\u003eGriselda \u003c\/em\u003eto Chaucer's\u003cem\u003e Clerk's\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMerchant's Tales\u003c\/em\u003e provide the body of evidence analysed in the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eBeyond Babel: The Tower and the Garden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Frameworks\u003cbr\u003e2. At the Origins of the Trope: Eden and the New Testament\u003cbr\u003e3. Neighbouring Tropes: Tradition and Translation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Encompassing Imperfection: The Garden of the \u003cem\u003eRose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. A Literary Space for Translation: The Authorities of the \u003cem\u003eRose\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e2. A Curious Literary Garden: Squaring the Circle\u003cbr\u003e3. Deferring Meaning: False Seeming and the \u003cem\u003eEvangile pardurable\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Animal Instability: Dante's Theories of Language before and in the \u003cem\u003eCommedia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. \u003cem\u003eInstabilissima avis\u003c\/em\u003e: Ornithology and Dante's Self-Translation\u003cbr\u003e2. \u003cem\u003eInstabilissimum animal\u003c\/em\u003e: A Brief History of Human Languages\u003cbr\u003e3. \u003cem\u003eInstabilissimus locus\u003c\/em\u003e: Contingency, Irony, Solidarity in the Cantos 26\u003cbr\u003e4. \u003cem\u003eInstabilissima signa:\u003c\/em\u003e Dante's New Linguistic Ecology and the Art of Acrostics\u003cbr\u003ea. Adam's Edenic Speech\u003cbr\u003eb. The Acrostic of \u003cem\u003eParadiso\u003c\/em\u003e 5: An Anti-Babel Fish\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Making Paradise on Earth: The Second Garden of Boccaccio's \u003cem\u003eDecameron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Intertextual Garden of the \u003cem\u003eDecameron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Two Stories for One Place\u003cbr\u003e3. Taking the Cross\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The Old and the New: Chaucer's Garden of Delight  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Reversion: Translating in Petrarch's \u003cem\u003eGriselda\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eClerk's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Elision and Recantation: The Garden of the \u003cem\u003eMerchant's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e and Januarie's Songs \u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Looking Back and Looking Forward: Reading Levi Reading Dante\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735740969240,"sku":"9781487558307","price":45.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/vernacular-edens-tropes-of-translation-in-medieval-european-fictions-hardback-9781487558307","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}