Epic Romance

Burrow, Colin

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198117940.001.0001

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“…Colin Burrow has studied the dynamic between Latin 'pietas', on the one hand, and vernacular 'pity' on the other. 24 It is notable that de Gournay avoids the one instance where Aeneas is described as 'Pius Aeneas', which she translates with 'cét amant', although she frequently uses the word 'pitié' to describe Dido's fall. Aeneas is often referred to in the narrative as 'l'amant' (pp.…”

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The Politics of the Partial Translations of the Aeneid by Dudley Digges and Marie de Gournay

Brammall

2013

Translation & Literature

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This is a comparative study of two almost exactly contemporary translations of Book 4 of Virgil's Aeneid: Marie de Gournay's of the last 500 lines (published 1620), and Sir Dudley Digges’ of the whole Book (published 1622). I show how these translators participated in what could be called ‘communities of Virgil translation’ in the early seventeenth century: they were both conspicuously part of local cultures of appropriating and translating Virgil, and these cultures provide the necessary context for reading these works. Second, I argue that one of the distinctive qualities of partial translations of the Aeneid in the early seventeenth century is that they make it possible to draw out particular political themes quickly and to enter them into the public debate. These themes are certainly not always the obvious ones.

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The Politics of the Partial Translations of the Aeneid by Dudley Digges and Marie de Gournay

Brammall

2013

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“…Burrow, though sensitive to Lucan's apocalyptic idiom, concludes that Lucan is a 'dead-end as a source,' suitable largely for exploding a poet's predecessors. 12 Nonetheless Burrow does go on to detect an incipient anti-tyrannical discourse in Drayton and Daniel's poems, based on the concept of 'justice'.…”

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