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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"literary translation"”.
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Decision-Making in Literary Translation: A Descriptive Study of Swahili Literary Translations
… investigates the notion of “shifts” in Swahili literary translations within a wider context of communication and focuses on the translators’ role and goals, which shape and direct both the process and the product of translation. The study is intended to answer the broad question of why Swahili …
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A linguistic and semantic approach to the theory and practice of literary translation
… of semantic and linguistic description to translation, theory and practice. It is aimed towards a practical model of approach to texts to translate. As literary texts [poetry mainly] are the focus of attention, so are stylistic matters. Note, however, that 'style', and, to some extent, the …
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Finding the Rainbow World: Transnational Queer Networks and Literary Translation in Cold War Japan
… transnational queer subcultures and networks of literary translation in Japan from the 1940s to the 1970s. In contrast to much of the English-speaking world, post-World War II Japan was relatively tolerant towards sexual minorities, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, a period that coincided …
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O texto literário : aprofundamento de leituras e transformações na aula de língua inglesa
The literary text is recognized as a value both in and out the Academy; and it is important to bear in mind that much of the literature which is read is translated. The need felt to insist on the literary quality of translated fictional texts led to this thesis goal: to propose the five literary …
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Translation after Wittgenstein
… can be of use to the reflective practitioner of literary translation. Wittgenstein, whilst a key figure in twentieth-century philosophy, remains peripheral to the field of translation studies and I argue that his later work, because it deals with the nature of language and meaning, is potentially …
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Cultural translation from Chinese to English: a case study of the problems in the translation and interpretation of selected contemporary texts
… for an "extended (cross-)cultural approach to literary translation". It proposes that socio-cultural elements pertaining to a literary text extend beyond the commonly understood scope and depth of literary translation into the macro-contextual sphere, as they arise before and after, as well as …
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Translational Wit: Seventeenth-Century Literary Translations of Selections from Ovid’s Heroides
… of the difference between original versions and translations of two texts from Publius Ovidius Naso's Heroides, "Phyllis to Demophoon" and "Phaedra to Hippolytus." The first chapter describes John Dryden's system of translational practices and some theoretical issues surrounding literary …
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Beyond Fidelity: The Translation Process in Two Adaptations of Juan Marsé’s El embrujo de Shanghai
… film by showing how concepts from the field of translation studies, particularly literary translation, can enrich the study of adaptation theory. An application is made to the case of Spanish novelist Juan Marsé’s work El embrujo de Shanghai, which has been adapted to film by Fernando Trueba and …
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Translation Strategies for the Chinese Culture-specific Expressions in the Chinese Premier's Press Conferences
… is located within the framework of descriptive translation studies and corpus-based contrastive discourse analysis. Modern Translation Studies has growingly taken into account the complexities of culture-specific expressions in literary translation. Conference interpreting setting has …
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Negotiating a Punctuated Landscape: A Study of Asyndetic Translation Based on Relevance Theory
… text. In fact, if manuals on French-to-English translation even mention this troublesome case of punctuation, they almost certainly warn the student translator against replicating it in English, even in literary translation. Writing norms would forbid it, they warn. It would be taken as merely a …
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"Orhan Pamuk's novels and their ""afterlife"" in English and German translations"
… Pamuk’s novels and on their English and German translations by Güneli Gün, Maureen Freely, and Ingrid Iren. I argue that literary translation is a creative act, the study and critique of which needs to be anchored within a specific historical, geographical, and temporal horizon. I studied the …
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Translating Turkish Poetry
… 2 I contextualise my work in the field of literary translation from Turkish to English during the period 1900 to 2012. I sub-divide this period of translation activity into three distinct phases and further justify this sub-division by contextualising these phases in relation to changing …
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Volume 1: Imaginative promptings: on ‘translating’ Paul et Virginie Volume 2: Genie and Paul: A novel
… commentary which posits Genie and Paul as a ‘translation’ of J. J. H. Bernadin de Saint-Pierre’s, Paul et Virginie, an eighteenth-century French novel set in colonial Mauritius. Genie and Paul explores its British Mauritian protagonists’ complex sense of cultural identity, with reference to …
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Creative Writing in the Threshold Narratives on Point of View and Perspective, Intertextuality, Place and Setting, and Metaphor
… and modes, and with other languages via literary translation. Tutors’ narratives in translation are curated to weave a tapestry of diǺferent perspectives on four key threshold aspects that apply narrative concepts to creative writing pedagogy: point of view and perspective, …
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Texts between Two Cultures: Challenges of Cross-Cultural Translation in the Arabic Versions of Jane Eyre and Frankenstein
… this research is to identify the cross-cultural translation challenges that Arab translators often encounter while translating nineteenth-century English novels. This has been done by examining translations of two well-known texts of the period, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by …
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Rewriting the Oeuvre: Raymond Queneau and the Art of Translation
<p>While the literary oeuvre of French author Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) has been extensively studied, his work as a literary translator has been largely overlooked. Queneau was a prominent member of the French literary avant-garde, but also a literary translator for two decades (1934-1953), and …
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar
… the extent to which, though a process of translation (or rewriting), skaldic poetry has been appropriated and manipulated in such a way as to help construct ideas of national identity. It combines two academic fields of study: one is the long-established and time-honoured tradition of …
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The translator's habitus and shifts : a study on modulations in the Persian translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound And The Fury', 'Go Down Moses' and 'Absalom! Absalom!'
… 1990). We take up John B. Thompson's synthetic translation of the concept ofhabitus (1991) while exploring descriptive explanatory interpretive hypotheses about thetranslator's text production activity. The knowledge underlying these hypotheses isderived from the domain of both conceptual and …
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