Literary Translation Seminar

Catalog description

The capstone Literary Translation Seminar will offer students basic knowledge and hands-on experience both in the field of Translation Studies and in the practice of literary translation. Translation today is an all-encompassing concept that describes the movement of texts, images, artifacts and ideas across linguistic, semiotic and cultural divides. As such, it is an indispensable theoretical framework for the analysis of our multilingual world. Drawing on expertise from several disciplines, the course will consider the multifaceted concept of translation from a diachronic and synchronic perspective, and will focus extensively on how translation and a host of other associated concepts – paraphrase, imitation, mimesis, transmesis, transliteration, transcreation, recreation, transformation, parody, appropriation, rewriting, adaptation, transference, transcoding, transduction, interpretation –have impacted, and still impact, all human activity. (Students will receive credit for ENG 4800 or CMP 4800, not both. These courses may substitute for each other with the F-replacement policy.)