Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Portable BunyanCondition: NewSubtitle: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's ProgressISBN-10: 0691116563EAN: 9780691116563ISBN: 9780691116563Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/28/2003Description: How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is it changed by the intellectual environments it encounters? What does the transnational circulation mean for its reception back home? Exploring the international life of a particularly long-lived and widely traveled book, Isabel Hofmeyr follows The Pilgrim's Progress as it circulates through multiple contexts--and into some 200 languages--focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This feat of literary history is based on intensive research that criss-crossed among London, Georgia, Kingston, Bedford (John Bunyan's hometown), and much of sub-Saharan Africa. Finely written and unusually wide-ranging, it accounts for how The Pilgrim's Progress traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled, and, finally, how its circulation throughout the empire affected Bunyan's standing back in England.The result is a new intellectual approach to Bunyan--one that weaves together British, African, and Caribbean history with literary and translation studies and debates over African Christianity and mission. Even more important, this book is a rare example of a truly worldly study of "world literature"--and of the critical importance of translation, both linguistic and cultural.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Isabel HofmeyrGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Literary Criticism, Language & ReferenceBook Series: Translation/TransnationRelease Year: 2003 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Portable Bunyan
Title: The Portable Bunyan
Subtitle: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress
ISBN-10: 0691116563
EAN: 9780691116563
ISBN: 9780691116563
Release Date: 12/28/2003
Release Year: 2003
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Portable Bunyan : a Transnational History of the Pilgrim's Progress
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2003
Subject: Christianity / History, Translating & Interpreting, Books & Reading, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, African, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Isabel Hofmeyr
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Item Width: 6.6 in
Series: Translation/Transnation Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
