¿Lazarillo Libertin? Sobre la primera recepción en Europa del Norte: traducciones e inspiraciones anticlericales

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Correard
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
New Targets ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
Guzman De Alfarache ◽  
English Translations ◽  
French And English

It has often been argued that the picaresque genre derived from the Lazarillo castigado, if not from the Guzmán de Alfarache, more than from the original Lazarillo. Such an assumption neglects the fact that the first French and English translations did rely on the 1554 text, whose influence, conveyed by the 1555 sequel also translated in French in 1598, did last until the early 17th century. Probably designed in an Erasmian circle, the anticlerical satire, enhanced by provoking allusions to certain catholic dogmas, did not pass unnoticed: the marginal comments of the translations, for instance, testify for a strong interest for this theme. It is no wonder, therefore, if the first satirical narratives freely inspired by the Lazarillo, such like The Unfortunate Traveller by Nashe, the Euphormio Lusinini Satyricon by Barclay, or the Première journée by Viau, adapted its religious satire to their own actuality: in the context of the rise of libertine thinking, characters of Jesuits and Puritans could become new targets for novelistic scenes based on an obviously “lazarillesque” model.

scholarly journals Vartovbogen 1985

1986 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-95
Author(s):  
Viggo Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Narrative History ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Individual

The Vartov Book 1985. Kirkeligt Samfunds Forlag, Copenhagen 1985.Reviewed by Viggo MortensenTwo features of this edition are given prominence in the review: the strong interest in narrative history, and in Grundtvig’s revisions of Kingo’s hymns from the 17th century. Alongside recollections of a German POW camp mention is made of a new version of Princess Leonora Christina’s “Memories of Woe” from the 17th century. Without a historical context modern man finds himself in a large, empty room. On the other hand Professor Svend Holm-Nielsen’s retelling of the patriarch, Jacob’s, story shows that the historicalcritical angle, far from destroying the story, actually enhances it. The article on Grundtvig and Kingo makes it clear that Grundtvig’s deep desire to renew the hymns for singing overrode any regard for the individual poet’s personal interest or copyright. “It is not an unreserved pleasure to be near Grundtvig, when he is passionate, ” says Rev. Jens Lyster.

scholarly journals The preface as a genre in english translations in the 17th century

2003 ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
María Carmen Buesa Gómez
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
English Translations

El concepto prólogo está relacionado con el género dramático y la oratoria clásica. Sus antecedentes pertenecían a la tradición de la tragedia griega. Por lo tanto, nos encontramos con la primera definición de la palabra prólogo en el Diccionario Oxford de Inglés como el prólogo o introducción a un discurso o el rendimiento; un discurso preliminar, proemio, prólogo, preámbulo

scholarly journals Pursuit of naturalness in translation: The case of the English translations of two francophone Maghrebian novels

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-125
Author(s):  
Khalid Majhad ◽  
Chakib Bnini ◽  
Mohammed Kandoussi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Comparative Linguistics ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
The World ◽  
English Translations ◽  
French And English

The fact that certain systemic differences exist between languages means that each language possesses a set of natural ways of expression specific to it, and ones that may sound odd in other languages. In other words, what is called ‘the genius’ of a language implies the existence of different ways of seeing and describing the world. Findings from comparative linguistics assert that languages ‘behave’ differently in manners revealing distinct mental pictures of the world events they describe. Naturalness is a central principle relating to proper language use and currency of usage from the perspectives of native users. This paper reviews the systemic differences between French and English and looks into the ways translators ensure naturalness by means of a strategy of equivalence in difference. A sign of success is the degree to which the translator manages to ‘free himself from the interference of the foreign language’. The corpus investigated consists of random samples of parallel excerpts from two francophone Maghrebian novels and their translations into English.

Conversations with the Living and the Dead

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Ashe
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Geoffrey Of Monmouth ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Oral Culture ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
English Translations ◽  
South English Legendary ◽  
French And English ◽  
The Church ◽  
Over Time

This chapter considers the ways in which ideas permeated and changed society over time, through mechanisms that cannot directly be seen in the literary record. It seeks to adumbrate the vibrant oral culture of the period by tracing the movement of ideas between texts, contexts and audiences, using romances, lyrics, sermons, devotional works, anecdotes and proverbs, and accounts of legal cases. Extended discussions are offered of the figure of King Arthur in the Latin of Geoffrey of Monmouth, French of Wace, and English of Laȝamon; the Marian lament at the Passion, in Latin and its French and later English translations; the early Middle English religious lyric; the Mirror of the Church in Latin, French, and English; the South English Legendary, and several other texts.

scholarly journals ‘Luxury beyond morals’: the rise and transformation of the concept in 18th century Russia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Korchmina ◽  
Mikhail Kiselev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
World History ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
The Core ◽  
Roman World ◽  
French And English

Luxury has always been an intrinsic part of world history, but the words ‘luxe’/’luxury’ in the conventional sense are quite new, entering the French and English languages only in the 17th century. It was only at the end of the 17th century that the core of this phenomenon came up for discussion in Europe against a backdrop of development of international trade and incipient economic growth. During these debates, the concept of luxury was gradually demoralized by economic liberalism. A seminal role in the defining of the concept of luxury was played by translations. European thinkers coordinated their positions even if they disagreed with each other. How was the notion of luxury conceptualized outside the European Roman world? Russia is an interesting example that helps to understand it. The article answers when and why the concept of luxury entered Russian political thought and why although the luxury, finding itself outside the bounds of morality, continued to be only condemned in the economic sphere.

scholarly journals This tickles beyond all measure: an expanded version of Henning’s Hieb-Fechten in Add MS 17533

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-171
Author(s):  
Reinier van Noort
Keyword(s):  
Common Ancestor ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
British Library ◽  
English Translations ◽  
The Given

Abstract Erhardus Henning’s work on Hieb-Fechten is one of only a few 17th century German fencing treatises describing cut-based fencing. An expanded version of this text, containing a larger collection of lessons, can be found in British Library Add MS 17533 fol. 127v to 138v, titled only Daß Hieb Fechten. Based on the great similarities between these two texts, it is clear that they share a common ancestor. In this contribution, the two versions of the Hieb-Fechten text are compared, and the main differences between the two versions are discussed. Based on the given comparison, and the more polished impression given by Henning’s published work, it is hypothesised this work presents a later version of the text than given in Add MS 17533. Whether Erhardus Henning was the original author of the text, or only edited and published an older text he did not author himself cannot be determined, though there is no reason to suspect he was not the original author. Finally, full transcriptions and English translations of both works are provided, and the differences between the two texts are indicated in the translation.

scholarly journals Traduire l'ironie. L'exemple d'une œuvre romanesque de N. Kazantzaki et ses traductions française et anglaise

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Constantinou
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
The Novel ◽  
English Translations ◽  
French And English ◽  
Textual Approach ◽  
Rhetorical Figure ◽  
Last Temptation Of Christ ◽  
Work And Life

This paper sets out to study the ironical effects related to morphological, rhetorical and macro-structural cues of the novel by N. Kazantzakis's Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός (1951), and then to examine the degree of their transposition in the French and English translations, carried out by Saunier (1959 La dernière tentation du Christ) and by Bien (1960 The Last Temptation of Christ) respectively. Initially, from a theoretical point of view some definitions of irony as a thought and rhetorical figure are reviewed, while a particular attention is drawn to the theoretical insights of literary irony, in relation to Kazantzakis's work and life. From an analytical, enunciative perspective, this article will endeavour to locate, classify and analyze some techniques of ironization brought into play by Kazantzakis, with a view to comparing them with their transposition in the translated texts. The study privileges a pragmatico-textual approach, which embraces the theoretical background of enunciative polyphony.

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