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Publication details [#10315]

Berger, Günter. 1981. Galanterie und Hofsatire: Petron und seine Übersetzer im Ancien Regime [Courtesy and satire at the court: Petronius and his translator during the Ancien Regime]. In Bader, Wolfgang, Reinhard Sander and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, eds. Literarische Übersetzung [Literary translation]. Special issue of Komparatistische Hefte 4: 19–31.
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
German
Keywords
17th century | 18th century | adaptation | comparative research=contrastive research | literary approach=literary discourse=literature | psychological approach=psychology | reader=target audience=listener=readership | reception | satire | sociological approach=sociology
Source language
Latin
Target language
French
Person as a subject
Petronius
Title as subject
Satyricon

Abstract

The author analyses and compares five French (partial) translations and an adaptation of Petronius' Satyricon (17th/18th century) - using two selected episodes - in the light of contemporary translation theory and of poetic normative concepts. Starting from the notion that translations might be considered to be a special kind of literary reception and therefore should be placed within the general history of literary reception, he tries to explain the increased reception of Petronius at that time in terms of the socio-psychological dispositions and needs of the audience at the French court.
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