Translations of the Spanish Classic Celestina: Half a Millennium and Counting

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Kathleen V. Kish

Organizer Affiliation

San Diego State Univ.

Presider Name

Kathleen V. Kish

Paper Title 1

Ecdotic Considerations on a Lost Italian Translation of a Comedia de Calisto y Melibea

Presenter 1 Name

Ottavio Di Camillo

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Graduate Center, CUNY

Paper Title 2

Among Tories and Coffeehouses: Reading Celestina in England (1707)

Presenter 2 Name

Marta Albalá Pelegrín

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Graduate Center, CUNY/Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 3

A Celestina Revival in the Nineteenth Century (Translations, Too)

Presenter 3 Name

Joseph T. Snow

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Michigan State Univ.

Paper Title 4

Las versiones neerlandesas de La Celestina por Henk de Vries

Presenter 4 Name

Lieve Behiels

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Katholieke Univ. Leuven/Univ. Catholique de Louvain

Start Date

11-5-2013 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley I Shilling Lounge

Description

The papers in this session explore selected Celestina translations, hailing from Italy, England, France, Germany, and Belgium, and ranging from the sixteenth century to the present. They deal with textual, cultural, and translation issues and will be of interest to Celestina specialists, medievalists, Renaissance scholars, and comparative literature researchers.

Kathleen V. Kish