pseudotranslation, Mona Baker

Pseudotranslation

July 18, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Brigitte Rath ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) State of the Discipline Report, Ideas of the Decade 1 April 2014 The idea of pseudotranslation sharpens some central concepts of Comparative Literature. “World Literature,” according to David Damrosch, is “always as much about the host culture’s values and needs as it is about a work’s source culture” (283). Foregrounding a text’s imaginary

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Brigitte Rath, pseudotranslation

PRISMATIC TRANSLATION

April 22, 2015 Mona Baker Events, Translation

The Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) annual conference in collaboration with the European Humanities Research Centre (EHRC) St Anne’s College Oxford, 1-3 October 2015 Call for papers: Translation is prismatic when it produces multiple variants. This can happen in the process of a single translational act, or when a text is translated into different languages, or when it is