Lost in Transmission? Literary and Musical Forms in the Translation of Texts

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Mediaevalia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide

Organizer Name

Marilynn Desmond

Organizer Affiliation

Binghamton Univ.

Presider Name

Marilynn Desmond

Paper Title 1

Feeling the Text

Presenter 1 Name

Jane Gilbert

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. College London

Paper Title 2

Fortune Translated: The Changing Form of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in the French Vernacular Tradition

Presenter 2 Name

Emily Kate Price

Presenter 2 Affiliation

New York Univ.

Paper Title 3

Voicing the Song of Songs in a French Vernacular Bible Manuscript (BnF ms fr. 15371)

Presenter 3 Name

Jeanette Patterson

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Binghamton Univ.

Start Date

14-5-2016 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1345

Description

Forms such as meter, lyric, song or rhyme make language literary or musical; this session addresses how those forms are transmitted in the translation of texts.

Marilynn Desmond