Translating Rabelais's botanical erudition (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries)
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: L’Année rabelaisienne
2022, n° 6. varia - Author: Smith (Paul J.)
- Pages: 173 to 188
- Journal: The Year of Rabelais
This article examines the strategies that Rabelais’s early translators (Johann Fischart, Thomas Urquhart, Pierre Motteux, and Nicolaas Jarichides Wieringa) employed to confront or circumvent lexical difficulties in Rabelais’s botany. To this end, the article focuses on three episodes from Rabelais: the torcheculs episode (G, XIII), the Pantagruelion episode (TL, l), and the episode with the Fredons Brothers (CL, XXVIII: the enumeration of aphrodisiac plants).
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- ISBN: 978-2-406-12943-1
- EAN: 9782406129431
- ISSN: 2554-9111
- DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12943-1.p.0173
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 03-23-2022
- Periodicity: Annual
- Language: French
- Keyword: translations of Rabelais, Geschichtklitterung, Dodoens, Cotgrave, botanical lexicon
