- Publisher: Bodleian
- Year: 2019
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 176pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 250x213mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.9kg
- ISBN: 9781851245093
- Product code: 537430
Babel
New Hardback Illustrated
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For millennia the art of translation has allowed ideas and stories to be shared, building bridges between cultures and inspiring creativity while also ensuring that each language retains its distinctiveness. The examples explored in this illustrated collection of essays include the Homeric epics, religious texts and beast fables, from the Sanskrit Panchatantra to Beatrix Potter. Also discussed are types of cross-linguistic play and fantasy writers’ invented languages.
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This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation into different languages and cultures, focusing on illustrated examples ranging from Greek papyri through illuminated manuscripts and fine early books to fantasy languages (such as J.R.R. Tolkien's Elvish), the search for a universal language and the challenges of translation in multicultural Britain.
Starting with the concept of Babel itself, which illustrates the early cultural prominence of multilingualism, and with an illustration of a Mediterranean language of four millennia ago (Linear A) which still resists deciphering, it goes on to examine how languages have interacted with each other in different contexts.
The book also explores the multilingual transmission of key texts in religion, science (the history of Euclid), animal fable (from Aesop in Greek to Beatrix Potter via La Fontaine, with some fascinating Southeast Asian books), fairy-tale, fantasy and translations of the great Greek epics of Homer.
It is lavishly illustrated with a diverse range of material, from papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus to Esperanto handbooks to Asterix cartoons, each offering its own particular adventure into translation.
Starting with the concept of Babel itself, which illustrates the early cultural prominence of multilingualism, and with an illustration of a Mediterranean language of four millennia ago (Linear A) which still resists deciphering, it goes on to examine how languages have interacted with each other in different contexts.
The book also explores the multilingual transmission of key texts in religion, science (the history of Euclid), animal fable (from Aesop in Greek to Beatrix Potter via La Fontaine, with some fascinating Southeast Asian books), fairy-tale, fantasy and translations of the great Greek epics of Homer.
It is lavishly illustrated with a diverse range of material, from papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus to Esperanto handbooks to Asterix cartoons, each offering its own particular adventure into translation.
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<p>For millennia the art of translation has allowed ideas and stories to be shared, building bridges between cultures and inspiring creativity while also ensuring that each language retains its distinctiveness. The examples explored in this illustrated collection of essays include the Homeric epics, religious texts and beast fables, from the Sanskrit <i>Panchatantra</i> to Beatrix Potter. Also discussed are types of cross-linguistic play and fantasy writers’ invented languages.</p>
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250x213mm
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Hardback
