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A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures.

In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: the fixer. With this language, Stahuljak captures the diverse, active roles medieval translators and interpreters played as mediators of entire cultures—insider informants, local guides, knowledge brokers, art distributors, and political players. Fixers offers nothing less than a new history of literature, art, translation, and social exchange from the perspective not of the author or state but of the fixer.

Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature

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A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak... Read more

    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 26/01/2024
    ISBN13: 9780226830407, 978-0226830407
    ISBN10: 0226830403

    Number of Pages: 368

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures.

    In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: the fixer. With this language, Stahuljak captures the diverse, active roles medieval translators and interpreters played as mediators of entire cultures—insider informants, local guides, knowledge brokers, art distributors, and political players. Fixers offers nothing less than a new history of literature, art, translation, and social exchange from the perspective not of the author or state but of the fixer.

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