Fictional Translation in Renaissance Europe
A Tool for the History of Translation
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https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.54.047Keywords:
fictional translation, History of Translation, Don Quixote, parody, collaborative translationAbstract
The present work argues that the study of the literary device of fictional translation has value for the History of Translation. A review of some terminological and theoretical considerations is followed by the analysis of a specific example and a brief historical overview of the use of the device in European literature. The example analyzed is the use of fictional translation in Cervantes’s Don Quixote, where it functions not only as a parody of a device typical of chivalric romances but also as a specific parody of collaborative and multicultural translation practices that were common in medieval Spain but are not frequently considered in histories of translation. This example highlights the value of fictional translation as a tool for recovering translation models that have been marginalized by modern translation theory.
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