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Título: TRANSLATION, ANGLO-HISPANIC RELATIONS AND DEVOTIONAL PROSE IN THE RENAISSANCE: FRANCIS MERES' RENDERING OF LUIS DE GRANADA'S GUÍA DE PECADORES
Autor: Castillo Arroyo, Miriam
Universidad: Universidad de Granada
Departamento: Filología inglesa y alemana
Fecha de Lectura: 27/09/2018
Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Lenguas, Textos y Contextos por la Universidad de Granada
Dirección:
- PÉREZ FERNÁNDEZ, JOSÉ MARÍA (DIRECTOR)
- Hadfield, Andrew David (CODIRECTOR)
Tribunal:
- MARTÍNEZ-DUEÑAS ESPEJO, JOSÉ LUIS (PRESIDENTE)
- GUTIÉRREZ SUMILLERA, ROCÍO (SECRETARIO)
- SÁEZ HIDALGO, ANA (VOCAL)
- Shell, Alison (VOCAL)
- Cummings, Brian (VOCAL)
Descriptores:
- TRADUCCION E INTERPRETACION
- LENGUA Y LITERATURA
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ISBN: 9788413060231

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This thesis investigates the enigmatic figure of Francis Meres (1565/6-1647) and above all his interest in Luis de Granada (1504-1588). In one year, 1598, he published three translations of some of Granada's most famous and international works; The Sinners Gvyde was his rendering of Luis de Granada¿s Guía de pecadores, whereas Granados Devotion, and finally Granados Spirituall and Heauenlie Exercises, consisted of selections from the second part of Granada¿s Libro de la oración y meditación. Meres¿ most widely known publication is, however, Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury, a collection of quotations on morals, religion and literature where we can also perceive Granada¿s influence: more than a hundred entries were taken from the Spanish author's works. The most influential part of the volume is, however, `The Comparative Discourse¿, a significant review of contemporary English literature with a special emphasis on Shakesperian plays. The popularity religious literature had achieved in England and, above all, Granada¿s singular style, some of whose features showed similarities to those admired in Elizabethan culture, particularly those promoted by John Lyly¿s popular work, Euphues, account for Meres' selection of the friar¿s writings. The focus of the study is Meres¿ The Sinners Gvyde, the first translation of Guía de pecadores into English, both in England and abroad. His English version did not derive from the Spanish original, though. The text he employed was Michael ab Isselt¿s Latin edition published in Cologne under the title Dvx Peccatorvm (1587), which was in turn rendered from an Italian version, not yet identified. In his version Meres introduced a number of modifications that hint at his concern about the country¿s religious settlement and his aspiration to become a writer. The Sinners Gvyde is, therefore, an excellent case study for the process of adaptive translation which works of literature undergo when they have to fit within a context that differs from the original. This research provides an introduction and a description of the general features and characteristics of Meres¿ The Sinners Gvyde. It looks into the motivations for the changes introduced with respect to the source text under the light of the doctrinal differences between Granada and Isselt¿s Catholicism, on the one hand and, on the other, the religious divide of Meres¿ context¿ within which Puritans, Catholics and Crypto-Catholics struggled to establish their religious ideas against those of the Church of England. Such analysis will also allow the investigation of traces of the doctrinal tenets of the Thirty-Nine Articles in Meres¿ version. Beyond that, this investigation analyses what these modifications can tell us about the ideas and mentalities of their readers and writers, about the worlds they inhabited and the ways in which the culture of the printed word interacted with their lives and environment. Moreover, it re-examines and enhances our awareness of some of sixteenth-century England¿s defining features, i.e. English humanism, the Reformation and the growth of English literature, and more generally, the book trade, the importation of continental books, networks of immigrant communities abroad and England¿s relation to its continental neighbours, mainly Spain. The lack of accurate and comprehensive information on Meres¿ life does not help when trying to establish his religious allegiance. On the grounds of the modifications that he added to his version of Guía de Pecadores, it seems safe to argue that Meres was a supporter of Anglicanism. These are all working hypotheses and future investigation is still required. Chapter 1 offers a general overview of Early Modern phenomena such as the Reformation, Humanism and the development of the book trade. The influential movement of the Devotio Moderna as well as the importance of Early Modern Bible translation and interpretation are analysed in this part too. Chapter 2 focuses Early Modern Translation, which played a fundamental role in defining the Early Modern European canon, its cultural, political and religious ideals. Translation is also approached as a fundamental instrument of mediation between the masterpieces of the past and those to come. In that regard, the ideas of contemporary linguistic theorists on translation studies such as André Lefevere, Eugene Nida, Theo Hermans, Lawrence Venuti and more recently William T. Rossiter, Belén Bistué or Matthew Reynolds constitute the methodological framework and the set of doctrinal principles employed in the analysis of the subject of study in this research. It takes Meres¿ The Sinners Gvyde as an example of how translation constitutes a richly social process involving material aspects but also social and cultural agents such as ideology or poetics that manipulate the process of translation, including the choice of theme and translation procedures. The concept of translatability and the strategies used to compensate for this will be central in this analysis too. Luis de Granada and Meres¿ production is the main subject of chapter 3. The effort of Álvaro Huerga in editing the complete works of the Dominican Granada has been essential in the compilation of this part. This is not the case, however, with Meres¿ role as a translator. While a considerable amount of references mentions his anthology, Meres¿ translations remain poorly documented, which is the thrust of this investigation. Anglo-Hispanic literary relations are the main subject of Chapter 4, which provides the framework for the reception of Luis de Granada in England. The core of the argument is contained in the last two chapters of the dissertation; chapter 5 delves into the reception of Luis de Granada¿s prose in England, and how it was used by translators of different religious persuasions, both Catholic and Protestant. Chapter 6, on the other hand, focuses on Meres¿ The Sinners Gvyde. It begins with a comparative analysis between the Castilian original, the Latin version and Meres¿ English rendering, taking into account the three major sources of the work, i.e. the Bible, the Church Fathers and classical authors. It then examines Francis Meres¿ strategies in the process of translation. Finally, this chapter further analyses the presence of articles VI, X, XXII, XXV, XXVIII in his text.

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