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Article: Nicole Guenther Discenza, The King's English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English 'Boethius'.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2008
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Nicole Guenther Discenza, The King's English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English 'Boethius' (New York: State University of New York Press, 2005), viii + 224 pp. ISBN 0-7914-6447-4. $60.00.
Nicole Guenther Discenza's study of the Alfredian Boethius offers some welcome new perspectives on the text and its cultural context including, most notably, the productive use of theoretical models derived from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and from the field of Translation Studies. The book suffers to some extent, however, due to its publication date--shortly before the long-anticipated publication of the Alfredian Boethius Project material--and its limited engagement ...