Description
In the late Middle Ages, the Low Countries -- ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy and their Hapsburg successors -- boasted a dynamic literary culture in both French and Dutch. Speakers of these languages interacted in more ways than might be expected. Writers shared topics and techniques; works were translated; printers who spoke one language published material in the other. The Multilingual Muse brings together an unprecedented community of scholars, both historians and literary specialists, to chart these interactions. It reveals that poetry, far from resisting linguistic and cultural translation as is widely supposed, was a deeply transcultural enterprise in the region.
Adrian Armstrong is Centenary Professor of French at Queen Mary University of London. Elsa Strietman is a Fellow Emerita of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and was Senior Lecturer in Dutch, University of Cambridge.
Author: Adrian Armstrong
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 06/03/2019
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9781781885505
ISBN10: 1781885508
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Medieval
- Literary Criticism | European | French
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Historical & Comparative
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