Writing empire
Subtitle: Latin quotations in texts on the British Empire
By: Bente Lucht
Series: Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 425
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9783825359690
Subjects: In literature; Colonies; English literature; Quotations, Latin, in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, 2011.

includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-239).

Includes texts in Latin.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Latin as a sign; title: Latin and power; title: Latin and gender; title: Latin and the British Empire; title: Approach and methodology. Translatio(n) and tradition: Translatio(n); title: Translatio Imperii et Studii; title: Tradition; title: Case study: Queen Victoria - 'Empress of India'; title: "Traveling theory" and Translationes; title: Intertextuality and quotation; title: Rudyard Kipling. Kipling's "Regulus": Horace's Regulus and Kipling's "Regulus"; title: Translatio(n) in Kipling's "Regulus"; title: "A translation - Horace, Bk. V, Ode 3"; title: Puck of Pook's Hill: the Roman stories: "A centurion of the thirtieth"; title: "A centurion of the thirtieth" and the memento mori-lyric; title: Translation in Kipling's "A centurion of the thirtieth"; title: Joseph Conrad. "Heart of darkness" and the Roman paradigm; title: Ave! Morituri Te Salutant; title: The function of the Roman culture in "Heart of darkness"; title: George Orwell. Burmese days and imperialism; title: The Civis Romanus Sum-doctrine; title: Burmese days and the Memento Mori-lyric; title: The function of Latin in Burmese days; title: Methodology revisited: (post)modernism, (post)colonialism; title: Brian Friel's Translations. Postcolonial Ireland; title: Ireland, the classical tradition and Friel's Irish education in the hedge schools; title: Brian Friel's Translations and Latin quotations; title: Tom Stoppard. Indian ink and the metanarrative of Translatio Amoris; title: Translatio Imperii et Studii vs. Translatio Amoris?; title: Indian ink and Memento Mori; title: Conclusion: Romanes eunt domus; title: Bibliography.