Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey as translators: an analysis of their English versions of the medieval poems included in Brenan’s The Literature of the Spanish People

Eroulla Demetriou

doi:10.24310/TRANS.2002.v0i6.2929

Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey as translators: an analysis of their English versions of the medieval poems included in Brenan’s The Literature of the Spanish People

Authors

Eroulla Demetriou Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2002.v0i6.2929

Abstract

Es mi intención mostrar en este artículo la mediocre calidad como traductores literarios del hispanista británico Gerald Brenan (1894-1987) y de su esposa la poetisa norteamericana Gamel Woolsey (1895-1968). Analizo para ello las versiones al inglés que realizan de los pasajes y poemas medievales españoles que insertan en The Literature of the Spanish People (1951) de Brenan. Estas están repletas de errores de interpretación. Muestro asimismo los recursos que el matrimonio Brenan emplea para disimular su mediocridad como traductores, de la que parecen ser empero conscientes.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

Publication Facts

This article

Author statements

Data availability

N/A

16%

External funding

N/A

32%

Competing interests

N/A

11%

This journal

Other journals

Articles accepted

32%

33%

Days to publication

145

Indexed in

—

Editor & editorial board: profiles
Academic society: N/A
Publisher: Universidad de Málaga

Downloads

Published

2017-06-12

How to Cite

Demetriou, E. (2017). Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey as translators: an analysis of their English versions of the medieval poems included in Brenan’s The Literature of the Spanish People. TRANS – Revista De Traductología, (6), 113–119. https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2002.v0i6.2929

Download Citation

Issue

No. 6 (2002)

Section

Articles

License

All contents published in TRANS. Revista de Traductología are protected under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. All about this license is available in the following link: <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0>

Users can copy, use, redistribute, share and exhibit publicly as long as:

The original source and authorship of the material are cited (Journal, Publisher and URL of the work).
It is not used for comercial purposes.
The existence of the license and its especifications are mentioned.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

There are two sets of authors’ rights: moral and property rights. Moral rights are perpetual prerogatives, unrenounceable, not-transferable, unalienable, imprescriptible and inembargable. According to authors’ rights legislation, TRANS. Revista de Traductología recognizes and respects authors moral rights, as well as the ownership of property rights, which will be transferred to University of Malaga in open access.

The property rights are referred to the benefits that are gained by the use or the dissemination of works. TRANS. Revista de Traductología is published in an open access form and it is exclusively licenced by any means for doing or authorising distribution, dissemination, reproduction, , adaptation, translation or arrangement of works.

Authors are responsable for obtaining the necessary permission to use copyrighted images.