Introduction to translation

Class Schedule

1. Introduction: Reminiscences of a Cynical Practitioner
2. How Bad Can It Get?
3. Translating the Untranslateable. The Story
4. Translating the Untranslateable. The Text
5. Lawrence Venuti and the Translator's Invisibility
6. Antoine Berman and the Deformative Tendencies
7. Translators and Other People
8. Translation and Other Cultures
9. Roman Jakobson and his Three Types of Translation
10. Eugene Nida and his Principles of Correspondence
11. Holmes and his Classification of Translation Studies
12. Translation as Text Reuse
13. The Translators' Lexical Traces
14. Reserve session
15. Final test