Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic 468S, 2001-2002. Aspects of Literary Translation of Ukrainian

The essays assigned below are from the anthology The Translation Studies Reader, eds. Mona Baker & Lawrence Venuti, Routledge, London, 2000. P 306 T7436 2000 c.1 ROBA which is on Short Term Reserve at Robarts.

Assignment Schedule
Class meets in UC 255, Mondays, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Month	Day	Class
Jan	7	Christmas day, no class
	14	Introduction Texts for discussion: Byron, Vynnychuk, Andrukhovych, Shevchuk
	21	James S. Holmes, "The Name and Nature of Translation Studies" pp. 172–85. Texts for discussion: Pidmohylnyi, Shakespeare, Honchar
	28	Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet, "A Methodology for Translation" pp. 84–93. Roman Jakobson, "On the Linguistic Aspects of Translation" pp. 113–18. Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original
Feb	4	Walter Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator" pp. 15–25. Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Thick Translation" pp. 417–29. Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original
	11	Eugene Nida, "Principles of Correspondence" pp. 126–40 Willard V. O. Quine, "Meaning and Translation" pp. 94–112. Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original
	18	Reading week, No class
	25	Lori Chamberlain, "Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation" pp. 314–29. Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original
Mar	4	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "The Politics of Translation" pp. 397–416. Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original
	11	Antoine Berman, "Translation and the Trials of the Foreign" 284–97. Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original
	18	Shoshana Blum-Kulka, "Shifts of Cohesion and Coherence in Translation" pp. 298–313. Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original
	25	Vladimir Nabokov, "Problems of Translation: 'Onegin' in English" pp.71–83. Ernst-August Gutt, "Translation as Interlingual Interpretive Use" pp. 376–96. Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original
Apr	1	No reading assignment from the Anthology for this week. Instead, examine these two sets of translations of Shevchenko. Comparison of translations of Dumy moi. Comparison of translations of Zapovit. Choose any poem by Shevchenko and attempt a translation of ten lines. You are welcome to try Dumy moi, or Zapovit. Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original
	8	Conclusions and summaries Student translations for discussion and analysis: Christine Bilaniuk translation original Hania Jemetz translation original Anna Mazurenko translation original Natalia Nemylivska translation original Uliana Pasicznyk translation original Andre Rybak translation original

 

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