Project

“The Translation, Cultural Mediation, and Reception in Britain of J.-J. Rousseau’s Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts, 1751-1770: A Study of Translational Poetics, Ideological Adaptation, and Print Cultural Appropriation”

Code

05V00312

Duration

01 January 2012 → 31 October 2016

Funding

Ghent University funding

Promotor

Kristoffel Demoen

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of language studies

Keywords

British and French cultural exchange ideological adaptation Rousseau national print cultures cultural mediation Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts translation poetics reception

Project description

An original contribution to the study of translation, cultural mediation and transfer, print cultural research, and reception aesthetics, the project entails an innovative and interdisciplinary study of the translations of a groundbreaking French Enlightenment philosophical work. Not only will it contribute to the mapping of the mechanisms of cultural exchange; it will also provide an original scholarly intervention relating the transmedial use of the text to reading practices, cultural production, consumption, and the national print cultures of the time.