Renaissance go-betweens : cultural exchange in early modern Europe / edited by Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Höfele, Andreas, 1950-

Koppenfels, Werner von.

Series:

Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; 2.

Spectrum literature Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft, 1860-210X ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--European influences.

English literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--Appreciation--Great Britain.

European literature.

Translating and interpreting--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Translating and interpreting.

Comparative literature--English and European.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--European and English.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

Great Britain--Relations--Europe.

Great Britain.

Europe--Relations--Great Britain.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Der durchgehend englischsprachige Sammelband versammelt Beiträge international renommierter Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler (u. a. von Peter Burke, Carlo Ginzburg, Jan und Aleida Assmann), die sich mit dem Phänomen des Kulturtransfers in der europäischen Renaissance-Literatur befassen. U. a. werden Übersetzungen und Übersetzungsprozesse sowie Phänomene der Intertextualität und der literarischen Rezeption europäischer Philosophen diskutiert. In allen Beiträgen geht es um Regeln, Motive und Folgen des Kulturaustausches. Durch eine umfangreiche grundsätzliche Einführung und ein Register bietet der Band eine homogene Gesamtdarstellung des Gegenstandes. Der Band ist untergliedert in die Kapitel "Mediators. Routes of Exchange", "Mediations. Mental Topographies" und "Representations. Staging the Go-Between".

The volume analyses some of the travelling and bridge-building activities that went on in Renaissance Europe, mainly but not exclusively across the Channel, true to Montaigne's epoch-making program of describing 'the passage'. Its emphasis on Anglo-Continental relations ensures a firm basis in English literature, but its particular appeal lies in its European point of view, and in the perspectives it opens up into other areas of early modern culture, such as pictorial art, philosophy, and economics. The multiple implications of the go-between concept make for structured diversity. The chapters of this book are arranged in three stages. Part 1 ('Mediators') focuses on influential go-betweens, both as groups, like the translators, and as individual mediators. The second part of this book ('Mediations') is concerned with individual acts of mediation, and with the 'mental topographies' they presuppose, reflect and redraw in their turn. Part 3 ('Representations') looks at the role of exemplary intermediaries and the workings of mediation represented on the early modern English stage. Key features High quality anthology on phenomena of cultural exchange in the Renaissance era With contributions by outstanding international experts

Contents:

The Renaissance translator as go-between / Peter Burke

Inglese italianato-Italiano anglizzato : John Florio / Manfred Pfister

Ash Wednesday in Westminster : Giordano Bruno meets Elizabethan England / Werner von Koppenfels

De Witt, van Buchell, the wooden O, and the yellow M / Paul Frassen

John Dee as cultural, scientific, apocalyptic go-between / György E. Szönyi

John Wolfe and the impact of exemplary go-betweens on early modern print culture / Sonia Massai

Hybrids : learning from a gilded silver beaker (Antwerp, c. 1530) / Carlo Ginzburg

British cultural history and church history for the continent : John Bale's Summarium (1548) and Catalogus (1557-59) / Herbert Grabes

Machiavellian dissimulation and allegory : the writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney / John Roe

Moses as go-between : John Spencer's theory of religious translation / Jan Assmann

Another country : Marlowe and the go-between / Richard Wilson

Spirits, ghosts, demons in Shakespeare and Milton / Aleida Assmann

A membrane has broken : returning from the dead in The Spanish tragedy / Alexander Leggatt

The words of Mercury : Shakespeare's love ambassadors / François Laroque

Incising Venice : the violence of cultural incorporation in The merchant of Venice / Philippa Berry

Iago the essayist : Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare / Catherine Belsey.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110919516

3110919516

OCLC:

840446602