Author: Sorensen, Knud
Title: Thomas Lodge's Translation of Seneca's De Beneficiis compared with Arthur Golding's Version: A Textual Analysis with Special ...
Description: Kobenhavn, Gyldendal, 1960. orig. wrappers. 24x16cm, 185 pp, Cover stained & soiled. Name inked on half-title. Corner bumped.. Rubbed. Small tear to head of spine. Good. ¶ University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation. Full title concludes: "... Reference to Latinisms". Contents: Non-Classical Factors; Euphuism, Du Bartas; Lodge's qualifications; Motives for translating Seneca; Effects of hurry; Lack of scholarship; The Lipsian edition; Marginal notes; Other sources used: Pincianus; works on classical scholarship; dictionaries; Golding's translation; Vocabulary; Extent of Latinization; No influence from Golding: Influence from Golding; Preservations of Latin stems; Orthography; Delayed borrowing; Akwardness; Transformation; Quasi- technical terms; Lodge's linguistic independence; Syntax; The verb: tense; the subjunctive; the accusative with infinitive; participial constructions;The substantive: gender; number; The adjective; Pronouns: absolute use; personal pronouns in the second person; relatives; Conjunctions; The period; Independent Latinisms; Anti-classical constructions; Stylistics; Phraseology; Influence from Seneca or Golding?; agreement between the translators; word-order; the 'verbum verbo' principle; succintness and implicitness; Lack of identification; correlation; Rhetoric: alliteration; polyptoton; word-play, jingles; heaping of synonyms; amplification; Steigerung; concreteness; verbosity; rythm; variation; raciness; lack of colour; The 1620 Edition; W.R. 143. Textual variations: Marginal notes; insignificant alterations; closer conformity with the original; fewer doublets ; less variation; additions left out; the commentary; mistranslations corrected; omissions repaired; misprints corrected;..

Keywords: Classical Philology, Seneca, Translation, Translations, Thomas Lodge, Latin Literature, Literary Criticism, Arthur Golding, Latinisms