Translation as Rhetoric
Edward Jerningham's “Impenitence” (1800)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9355283 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Carlos (Carnegie Mellon University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 335-351 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetoric Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0735-0198 • E-ISSN: 1532-7981 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07350190903183390 |
| OpenAlex | W2127117465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Edward Jerningham's “Impenitence” (1800)––a translation of Bossuet's “Sermon du mauvais riche” (1662)––is remarkably dissimilar to its French original. This article investigates the rhetorical reasons behind this discrepancy. These reasons concern the problems of promoting a French model of eloquence in a fiercely anti-French climate and––even more problematic––promoting a text whose main theme is a denunciation of the rich in a period of extreme counterrevolutionary fervor. Jerningham's text shows that in facing potentially resistant readers, the strategies of a translator are those of a rhetor
Aesthetics · Art · Denunciation · Linguistics · Literature · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sermon · Theme (computing · Theology · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |