CFP for the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting for Cambridge,
UK, April 2005.
Back in 1931 F.O. Matthiessen, that noted scholar of the "other"
Renaissance, published a small volume on "Translation: an Elizabethan
Art." With reference to Hoby's Courtier, North's Plutarch, Florio's
Montaigne, and works by Philemon Holland, Matthiessen argued that these
were among the masterworks of their day (in some cases superior to the
originals) and that the English Renaissance was in fundamental ways a
culture of translation. I propose revisiting the matter of the English
Renaissance Culture of Translation. Proposals on all topics related to
translation in the English Renaissance are welcome: explorations of
major/milestone translations (Matthiessen was tentative about verse, but to
his list we might add Surrey's Virgil, Golding's Ovid, and Chapman's Homer,
as well asa vast additionEnglish Bibles); the nature/method of translation
in sixteenth, seventeenth century England; the "originality" (or
derivativeness) of translated works; re-examinations of the notion of a
"culture" of translation (including, but not limited to, the translatio
studii et imperii). The focus of the session (or sessions) will be guided
by the submissions received.
Please send abstracts (150 words) and a brief c.v. to Hannibal Hamlin at
the address below by 1 May 2004. Hardcopies are always fine, but email
attachments (WORD) are easiest. Queries welcome.
Hannibal Hamlin
Assistant Professor of English
The Ohio State University
1680 University Drive
Mansfield, OH 44906
419-755-4277
hamlin.22@osu.edu
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