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Cultural Encounters in the Romance of Medieval England.

Publication: Yearbook of English Studies
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Cultural Encounters in the Romance of Medieval England.(Book review)

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Cultural Encounters in the Romance of Medieval England. Ed. by Corinne Saunders. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 2005. x + 193 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. isbn: 978-1-84384-032-9.

Because of the linguistic situation in post-Conquest England, the specificity of Middle English translations of Anglo-Norman romances and the interest that they hold can mainly be attributed to the fact that they do not mediate between cultures separated by geographical distance. Ivana Djordjevic's analysis of the portrayal of the mother in Sir Beves of Hampton highlights major misreadings of the source's cultural connotations, and shows that translators may...

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