Reinventing Babel in Medieval French: Translation and Untranslatability (C. 1120-C. 1250)

by Dr Emma Campbell

How can untranslatability help us to think about the historical as well as the cultural and linguistic dimensions of translation? For the past two centuries, theoretical debates about translation have responded to the idea that translation overcomes linguistic and cultural incommensurability, while never inscribing full equivalence. More recently, untranslatability has been foregrounded in projects at the intersections between translation studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192871714
• ISBN13: 9780192871718
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"