Translation and narrative voice: translating ambiguities and narrators in Virgil’s Aeneid

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Translation and narrative voice: translating ambiguities and narrators in Virgil’s Aeneid

This thesis explores how translators recreate the narrative of Virgil’s Aeneid, a notoriously interpretable and polyvocal text characterised by its subjective and ambiguous nature. This complex narrative allows, or rather demands, interpretation from its readers and its translators. Calling on theor...

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Main Author:	Fitton-Hayward, Melanie
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	Virgil; Classics; Latin Narrative; Translation; Aeneid; Apostrophe; Subjectivity; Ambiguity; Focalisation; Simile
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/61290/

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