English Renaissance Translation Theory

经典和现代语言的翻译在英国文艺复兴时期的文学作品中所占的比重比人们普遍认为的要大得多，这可能被视为我们在这一主题地图上最大的空白。英国文艺复兴时期翻译理论是MHRA都铎和斯图尔特翻译新系列的一卷，由卷编辑尼尔·罗兹（圣安德鲁斯大学）和安德鲁·哈德菲尔德（苏塞克斯大学）设计。该系列的目的是创建一个具有代表性的作品图书馆翻译成英语的早期现代时期的学者，学生和阅读公众使用。它将包括大量的单个作品和主要作者的文本选集，重点是早期现代读者最熟悉的作品。该系列将以印刷形式（按需印刷）和在线电子版本的形式出版，文本本身将以现代化的拼写进行新编辑，并附有大量的介绍、注释和词汇表。该系列旨在恢复对英国文艺复兴时期文学的一个主要部分的看法，这个部分已经变得相对难以接近，并将这些文本作为自己的文学作品呈现出来。它的范围将与上世纪初出版的都铎翻译原版相似，虽然大部分作品将来自16世纪，但与原版系列一样，它不会受到1603年底的严格限制。然而，将会有一个非常不同的文本范围，具有新的和实质性的学术工具。MHRA Tudor & Stuart翻译将通过其对从古典到早期现代世界的文化传播过程以及早期现代世界内文化交流过程的表现，扩展我们对英国文艺复兴的理解。卷英国文艺复兴时期的翻译理论被设计为一个伙伴的系列，并将提供一个全面的概述关于翻译的想法在早期现代英国收集从序言到翻译，教育作品，以及关于翻译本身的作品。在这个时期，翻译是一项竞争激烈的活动，最明显的是与圣经有关的翻译，但在科学和其他学术科目中，专业人士担心将知识大众化的后果。因此，本书中的一些材料解决了专业学者和广大公众之间的接触问题，并提供了对“知识转移”这一现代概念的历史视角。该版本中的文本还解决了是否遵循来源的字母或精神以及翻译与“模仿”之间的关系等重要问题，这两者都影响了当时文学创作的概念化方式。本版的最后一部分将专门讨论翻译作为一项学术活动的功能。Rhodes将在MHRA赞助的一名研究助理的帮助下主要在圣安德鲁斯大学进行研究，但也将在英国科学院小额研究资助的支持下访问大英图书馆、牛津大学和剑桥大学的档案。2011年期间，他将在西班牙格拉纳达大学担任客座教授，宣传他的研究成果，以及整个MHRA系列；在华盛顿福尔杰研究所（Folger Institute），他将受邀担任一个关于早期现代翻译的会议的小组主席；在伦敦大学学院，首届“早期现代交流”会议的招待会将与MHRA系列发布会结合在一起。

Translation both from the classics and from modern languages forms a much greater part of English Renaissance literature than is generally recognised and might be seen as the largest remaining blank space in our map of the subject. English Renaissance Translation Theory is a volume in a new series, the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations, devised by the volume editor, Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews), and Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex). The aim of the series is to create a representative library of works translated into English during the early modern period for the use of scholars, students and the reading public. It will include both substantial single works and selections of texts from major authors, with the emphasis being on the works that were most familiar to early modern readers. The series will be published in both print format, as print on demand, and online as a series of electronic editions, and the texts themselves will be newly edited in modernised spelling with extensive introductions, notes and glossaries. The series aims to restore to view a major sector of English Renaissance literature which has become relatively inaccessible and to present these texts as literary works in their own right. It will have a similar scope to that of the original Tudor Translations published early in the last century, and while the great majority of the works presented will be from the sixteenth century, like the original series it will not be rigidly bound by the end-date of 1603. There will, however, be a very different range of texts with new and substantial scholarly apparatus. The MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations will extend our understanding of the English Renaissance through its representation of the process of cultural transmission from the classical to the early modern world and the process of cultural exchange within the early modern world. The volume English Renaissance Translation Theory is designed as a companion to the series and will provide a comprehensive overview of ideas about translation in early modern Britain gathered from the prefaces to translations, educational works, and works about translation itself. This is a period when translation was a fiercely contested activity, most obviously in relation to the Bible, but also in the sciences and other learned subjects where professionals feared the consequences of making knowledge common. Some of the material in the volume, then, addresses the issue of engagement between professional scholars and the wider public and provides a historical perspective on the modern concept of 'knowledge transfer'. Texts in the edition also address the vital questions of whether to follow the letter or the spirit of the source, and the relationship between translation and 'imitation', both of which impact upon the way in which literary creativity is conceptualised in the period. The final section of the edition will be devoted to discussions of the function of translation as an academic exercise. Rhodes will conduct the research principally at the University of St Andrews with the help of a Research Associate sponsored by the MHRA, but will also visit archives at the British Library, Oxford and Cambridge with the support of a British Academy small research grant. During 2011 he will publicise his research for the volume, and the MHRA series as a whole, in Spain, where he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Granada; at the Folger Institute, Washington, where he will be an invited panel chair for a conference on early modern translation; and at University College London, where the reception for the inaugural 'Early Modern Exchanges' conference will be combined with the MHRA series launch.