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Record Number:
8424
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Cornish , Alison.
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Title:
A Lady Asks: The Gender of Vulgarization in Late Medieval Italy
Source URL:
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
(Full Text via JSTOR) 115, 2 (March 2000): 166-180.
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PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
(Full Text via JSTOR) 115, 2 (March 2000): 166-180.
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Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Cavalcanti, Guido, Poet- Donna Me Prega
Dante Alighieri, Poet
Gender
Italian Language
Latin Language
Literature- Prose
Literature- Verse
Love in Literature
Readers
Translation
Vernacular Language
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
13- 14
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Abstract:
Classical texts were extensively translated into the vernacular in Italy during the period when Italian poetry began, and the "mentality" of translation is traceable in this early verse. Vernacularization is gendered female, especially in the conventions of lyric poetry. As exemplified in some thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poems and their prose commentaries, "vulgarization" is often presented as a discourse to women, who are conceived as a superior rather than an inferior audience. Instead of demeaning the Latin original, this kind of vulgarization paradoxically ennobles both the learned or scientific content and the young language in which it is written. This peculiar moment of Italian literary history contrasts with concurrent translation in France, with the subsequent abandonment of vulgarization under the influence of Petrarch, and with modern notions of the politics of translation.
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Year of Publication:
2000.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
00308129
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