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I. Translatio Imperii et Studii and the European Afterlives of Greece and Rome I. Translatio Imperii et Studii and the European Afterlives of Greece and Rome
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II. Translatio in the Prologue to Cligés: Beyond a Linear Model of Total Translation II. Translatio in the Prologue to Cligés: Beyond a Linear Model of Total Translation
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III. Thematizing Translation: The Textual Afterlives of Cligés and Fénice III. Thematizing Translation: The Textual Afterlives of Cligés and Fénice
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IV. The Epilogue to Cligés: Human Agency and Textual Afterlives IV. The Epilogue to Cligés: Human Agency and Textual Afterlives
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V. Cligés and the Benjaminian Afterlives of Translation: (Un)Translatability, Agency, and Translation Ethics V. Cligés and the Benjaminian Afterlives of Translation: (Un)Translatability, Agency, and Translation Ethics
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4 Translatio and the Afterlives of Translation in Chrétien de Troyes’s Cligés
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Published:October 2023
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This chapter considers how the logic of continuity and rupture associated with Benjamin’s definition of translation as textual afterlife illuminates Chrétien de Troyes’s depiction of translatio in Cligés. In a way that critically reflects on such logic, Chrétien’s romance exposes tensions between the model of historical progression associated with translatio and its application to the translational agencies that inform his writing practice and that shape the world of his romance. Exploring translatio’s relationship to historical survival on textual and personal levels, Chrétien raises ethical questions about how far earlier textual models should determine the afterlives of characters as well as texts. Cligés thus engages with issues of translatability and agency such as those in Benjamin’s description of translation as afterlife; yet, it offers a counterpoint to Benjamin’s depersonalized formulation by examining how textual afterlives are experienced on a human scale and involve the agencies of individual characters as well as writers.
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