Blanco White’s Translations from El conde LucanorTwo Medieval Spanish Tales in Romantic Britain

  1. Medina Calzada, Sara 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

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Revista:
Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

ISSN: 0210-6124

Año de publicación: 2022

Volumen: 44

Número: 2

Páginas: 108-125

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2022-44.2.06 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

Resumen

This paper analyses Joseph Blanco White’s English translations of tales XI and XLIV of Don Juan Manuel’s El conde Lucanor (c. 1331-1335), which were published in the New Monthly Magazine in 1824. In these fairly free translations, Blanco rewrites and recontextualises the tales by updating and adapting them to the knowledge and expectations of the target readership. His translation decisions, paratexts and the articles on El conde Lucanor that he also published in Variedades; o Mensajero de Londres in 1824 shed light on his ideas on Spanish literature and national identity as well as on his role as commentator and disseminator of Spanish culture in Britain. His translations construct a particular representation of Spain where he underlines those aspects that he believes to be genuinely Spanish, while also including some stereotypical elements of the Romantic image of Spain in Britain.

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