Stahuljak Professor Zrinka - Fixers Agency Translation And The Early Global History Of Literature - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Fixers Agency Translation And The Early Global History Of Literature
Author(s): Stahuljak Professor Zrinka
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226830407
Pages: 368 Pages, 13 Halftones
Publication Date: 1/26/2024
Category: Education