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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"translation history"”.
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From Bible to Babel Fish: The Evolution of Translation and Translation Theory
Translation, the transfer of the written word from one language to another, has a long history, and many important scholars have helped shape its perceptions, accepted processes, and theories. Machine translation, translation by computer software requiring little or no human input, is the latest …
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Angelo Poliziano and the Renaissance invention of Greek-to-Latin verse translation, 1430-1589.
Greek-to-Latin verse translation is a phenomenon entirely absent from the Middle Ages, and which appears only fitfully and tardily in the 15th century, some decades after prose translation becomes a staple of humanist practice. By the end of the 16th century, however, almost the entire corpus of …
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The Philosophical Heritage of Desire for God in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān
… to all hypostases. I also examine the Arabic translations of Plotinus’s text, arguing that the role of desire for God is severely diminished. Indeed, the desire for God we find in these texts is rational and non-permanent – a modified version of the Plotinian model. As I consider Ibn Bāǧǧa’s …
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A poetics of uncertainty: a chorographic survey of the life of John Trevisa and the site of Glasney College, Cornwall, mediated through locative arts practice
Connections between the medieval Cornishman and translator John Trevisa (1342-1402) and Glasney College in Cornwall are explored in this thesis to create a deep map about the figure and the site, articulated in a series of micro-narratives or anecdotae. The research combines book-based strategies …