AJ29058 Overtranslation and Undertranslation I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2000
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Finn (lecturer), PhDr. Thomas Donaldson Sparling, B.A. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Mgr. Jiří Rambousek, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ19000 Introduction to Translation || AJ1900
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Or "Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?" This seminar raises for translators of literature on all levels questions of the legitimacy/desirability/permissibility/inevitability/etc. (you choose) of nostrification/localization of the text, and examines some of the mechanisms by which it is achieved, intentionally or otherwise. In the process it challenges the role of the translator as being in loco parentis towards the author's brainchild and questions the laudability of the achievements of the "neat" or mot juste school of translation.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Credit evaluation note: 2 původní kredity.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2001.
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