The Bilingual Text : History and Theory of Literary Self-Translation (Paperback)

Introduction: Aims and Terms      

Part 1.  Vulgar Tongues

Medieval and Renaissance Conditions (1100-1600)    

A.  Changing Concepts of Language and Translation

B.  Between Antiqui and Moderni: Medieval Bilingual Cultural Centres

C.  Romancing Latin: Renaissance Vernaculars

D.  Self-Translators

     (1) Coin of the Realm: Nicole Oresme

     (2) Vernacular Doubles and Literary Subjectivity: Charles d'Orleans

     (3) The Translative Politics of the Florilegian Self: Remy Belleau

Part 2.  The Widening Compass of the Vernaculars

Early Modern Conditions (1600-1800) 

A.  Changing Concepts of Language and Translation

B.   A Modern Lingua Franca and the Robes of Thought

C.   Encountering the Languages of the Americas

D.   Self-Translators

      (1) Satiric Voices in Bilinguality: John Donne

      (2) Naming the Nun of New Spain: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 

      (3) Theatres of Translation: Carlo Goldoni

Part 3.  Facing Language

Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary Conditions (1800-2000)  

A.   Changing Concepts of Language and Translation

B.   Interfacing Concepts of Translation and Subjectivity

C.   Language and Literature in Modernity 

D.   Self-Translators

      (1) Modelling Modernity: Rabindranath Tagore, Stefan George, Giuseppe Ungaretti

      (2) Euro-American Inventio: Vladimir Nabokov

      (3) Trans-Atlantic Tonalities: Julian Green

      (4) Transposing Cultures: Samuel Beckett

      (5) Caribbean Crossways: Rosario Ferre