• Presentation by Professor David Harrison on translating La Princesse de Clèves into English (2021) 19m01s
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Presentation by Professor David Harrison on translating La Princesse de Clèves into English.

From La Princesse de Clèves by Lafayette: A New Translation and Bilingual Pedagogical Edition for the Digital Age by Edited by Hélène E. Bilis, Jean-Vincent Blanchard, David Harrison, and Hélène Visentin

  • David Harrison, translator for the English version of La Princesse de Clèves in this edition, discusses his approach to translation. Harrison focuses on the first line of the novel and the choices the translator must make when facing seventeenth-century French words like ,magnificence, galanterie, and éclat.
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  • FICTION / Historical/Renaissance
  • FIC101000 FICTION / World Literature / France / General
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  • 2021
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