{"product_id":"fixers-9780226830407","title":"Fixers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In her paradigm-shifting \u003ci\u003eFixers\u003c\/i\u003e, Stahuljak boldly rewrites the terms of literary history as we understand it, decentering its national authors and genres to refocus our gaze on a late medieval literature that comes into being by and through its ‘fixers’—worldly translators and emissaries, diplomats, and merchants—whose activities give shape to an early, precolonial world literature. A study that will do no less than force a rethinking of existing accounts of medieval literary production, \u003ci\u003eFixers \u003c\/i\u003eis at the same time essential reading for scholars of world literature, translation, and decolonization.” -- Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eFixers\u003c\/i\u003e, Stahuljak provides readers with a provocative and wide-ranging tour of medieval literary encounters and their mediation through multilingual and multicultural knowledge production. By centering the agency and experiences of fixers, she not only opens up new interpretive possibilities for seemingly familiar texts but develops a powerful analytic lens through which to study the multifaceted meanings and contingencies of translation in a medieval world released from the demands of modern agendas.\" -- Carol Symes, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e On Translations and Terminology\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Fixers: Toward an Alternative History of Translation and Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Historical Realities: Strategy, Loyalty, and Gift\u003cbr\u003e One The Politics of Translation: Foreign Language Acquisition, Conversion, and Colonization (Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Crusade Treatises)\u003cbr\u003e Two The Economy of Translation: Missionaries to the Mongol Empire, Pilgrims to the Holy Land, and the Gift of Languages (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Disciplinary Realities: Authorship, Genre, and Literary History\u003cbr\u003e Three The Ethics of Translation: Loyalty, Commensuration, and Literary Forms in the Fourteenth Century (Machaut, Froissart, Mézières)\u003cbr\u003e Four Fixer Literature: (Pseudo)Translation and Manuscript Illumination (the Fifteenth-Century Court of Burgundy)\u003cbr\u003e Five The Hermeneutics of Translation: Authorship and Genre (the Fifteenth-Century Court of Burgundy)\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion Fixers: Early World Literature in the Age of the Global\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Appendixes\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732933685591,"sku":"9780226830407","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226830407.jpg?v=1719999011","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fixers-9780226830407","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}