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Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature
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Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature
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Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature
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In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: the
. With this language, Stahuljak captures the diverse, active roles medieval translators and interpreters played as mediators of entire culturesinsider informants, local guides, knowledge brokers, art distributors, and political players.
offers nothing less than a new history of literature, art, translation, and social exchange from the perspective not of the author or state but of the fixer.