LITERARY TRANSLATION

Course Information
TitleΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΚΗ ΜΕΤΑΦΡΑΣΗ / LITERARY TRANSLATION
CodeΜΔΣ3-311
FacultyPhilosophy
SchoolEnglish Language and Literature
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600007262

Programme of Study: 2024-2025

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective CoursesWinter/Spring-6

Class Information
Academic Year2023 – 2024
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600243353
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students are expected: • To demonstrate knowledge of concerns and debates in literary translation. • To be acquainted with practical issues of literary translation. • To consider possible strategies for the solution of problems and apply relevant skills. • To develop their own personal translation skills. • To conduct fruitful research.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course aims to acquaint students to the translation of literary texts. A number of graded texts (prose, drama, poetry) will be analysed, discussed and translated in what is hoped to be a fruitful discussion over the appropriate rendering of a literary source-text into a target-language. Students will present their translations and will be encouraged to discuss problems encountered in the course of translation (e.g. text analysis, register, language usage, as well as cultural aspects of translation) and justify the choices made. The course will also involve discussion of the most influential contemporary translation theorists and their approach to the various problems, debates and challenges in the field of literary translation.
Keywords
translation, literature, criticism, self-evaluation
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Audio
  • Multimedia
  • Interactive excersises
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures60
Laboratory Work37
Reading Assigment20
Written assigments30
Exams3
Total150
Student Assessment
Description
Translation projects (40%) and final exam (60%).
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
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Theatre Quarterly 10.38 (1980): 47-55. ---. “Ways through the Labyrinth: Strategies and Methods for Translating Theatre Texts”. In Hermans, Theo. ed. The Manipulation of Literature. Studies in Literary Translation. London: Croom Helm, 1985. pp. 87-102. ---. Translation Studies. London: Methuen, 1988. ---. “Translating for the Theatre: The Case against ‘Performability’.” TTR 4.1 (1991): 99-113. ---., and André Lefevere. Constructing Cultures: Essays on Literary Translation. Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1998. Biguenet, John, and Rainer Schulte. eds. The Craft of Translation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. ---. Theories of Translation. An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. Bly, Robert. 1984. “The Eight Stages of Translation.” In Frawley, William, ed. Translation. Literary, Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives. London & Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1984. pp. 67-89. Boase-Beier, Jean, and Michael Holman. The Practices of Literary Translation: Constraints and Creativity. Manchester: St. Jerome, 1998. Boase-Beier, Jean. Stylistic Approaches to Translation. Manchester: St. Jerome, 2006. Bush, Peter, and Susan Bassnett. eds. The Translator as Writer. London and New York: Continuum, 2006. Catford, C. John. A Linguistic Theory of Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. Chesterman, Andrew. ed. Readings in Translation Theory. Helsinki: Oy Finn Lectura Ab, 1989. Classe, Oliver. ed. Encyclopedia of Literary Translation. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002. Eco, Umberto, and Alistair McEwen. Experiences in Translation. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2001. Even-Zohar, Itamar. “The ‘Literary System’.” Poetics Today 11.1 (1990): 27-44. ---. “The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem.” The Translation Studies Reader. Ed. Lawrence Venuti. London & New York: Routledge, 2000. pp. 192-197. Frawley, William, ed. Translation. 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08-02-2023