John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition
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John Gower wrote in three languages - Latin, French, and English - and their considerable and sometimes competing significance in fourteenth-century England underlies his trilingualism. The essays collected in this volume start from Gower as trilingual poet, exploring Gower's negotiations between them - his adaptation of French sources into his Latin poetry, for example - as well as the work of medieval translators who made Gower's French poetry...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1843842505
ISBN13:9781843842507
Release Date:September 2010
Publisher:Boydell & Brewer
Length:370 Pages
Weight:2.11 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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