Before the late seventeenth century, no one produced a full-blown, coherent theory of translation in English – the Earl of Roscommon and John Dryden being commonly assumed to be the first true explorers in this uncharted territory. While recently there has been some recognition that an absence of explicit theoretical pronouncements does not entail a lack of theory, one of the reasons why modern commentators do not envisage the existence of early English translation theory may be that much of it is intertextual. This article draws on twentieth-century notions of intertextuality to trace the diffusion of continental theories of translation in early modern Britain.
Intertextuality and Early Modern Translation Theory
morini massimiliano
2018
Abstract
Before the late seventeenth century, no one produced a full-blown, coherent theory of translation in English – the Earl of Roscommon and John Dryden being commonly assumed to be the first true explorers in this uncharted territory. While recently there has been some recognition that an absence of explicit theoretical pronouncements does not entail a lack of theory, one of the reasons why modern commentators do not envisage the existence of early English translation theory may be that much of it is intertextual. This article draws on twentieth-century notions of intertextuality to trace the diffusion of continental theories of translation in early modern Britain.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
