Textual mobility and cultural transmission

Textual Mobility and Cultural Transmission is the first publication of the research and documentation Centre for the Study of English Literatures in Dutch Translation. The first part explores the notion of 'textual mobility' from a theoretical, book historical and descriptive perspective. Having thus established a broad and dynamic framework, the second part subsequently provides four case studies on Byron, Carlyle, Woolf and Beckett. Tekstmobiliteit en Culturele Overdracht is de eerste publicatie...

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Nederlands, Engels, 116 pagina's (PDF, 1 MB), Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven, 2017

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Maarten Steenmeijer Schrijven als een ander

over het vertalen van literatuur

Nederland heeft een literaire vertaaltraditie waar menig ander land jaloers op is. Toch is er met veel vertalingen wel iets aan de hand. Ze haperen, slepen zich moeizaam voort of bevatten ronduit onbegrijpelijke passages. Daardoor laten vertalingen zich niet altijd lezen als wat ze zouden moeten zijn: soevereine Nederlandstalige teksten. Aan de hand van voorbeelden uit de praktijk laat Maarten Steenmeijer zien waar en waarom het fout gaat, en stelt hij een aantal fundamentele vragen: wat is literair...

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Nederlands, 170 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB), Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam, 2015

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Recharting territories

intradisciplinarity in translation studies

Since the inception of Translation Studies in the 1970s, its researchers have held regular metareflections. Largely based on the assessment of translation and interpreting as two distinct but related modes of language mediation, each with its own research culture, these intradisciplinary debates have sought to take stock of the state of research within an ever-expanding discipline in search of (institutional) identity and autonomy. Recharting Territories proposes a more widespread and systematic...

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Engels, PDF, 3,6 MB, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2022

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Situatedness and performativity

translation and interpreting practice revisited

Translating and interpreting are unpredictable social practices framed by historical, ethical, and political constraints. Using the concepts of situatedness and performativity as anchors, the authors examine translation practices from the perspectives of identity performance, cultural mediation, historical reframing, and professional training. As such, the chapters focus on enacted events and conditioned practices by exploring production processes and the social, historical, and cultural conditions...

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Engels, 209 pagina's (PDF, 4,7 MB), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2021

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Olha Lehka-Paul Personality matters

the translator’s personality in the process of self-revision

The analysis of translated texts and investigations into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the process of translation are burgeoning areas of research in translation studies. Personality Matters ventures into a previously uncharted territory in its exploration of the psychological and cognitive characteristics of a translator. Combining psychology and translation process research, this groundbreaking study identifies personality traits that distinguish translators from non-translators, and shows...

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Engels, PDF, 7,1 MB, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2020

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Transfer thinking in translation studies

playing with the black box of cultural transfer

The concept of transfer covers the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in opening up the field of translation studies. Transfer processes cross linguistic and cultural boundaries and cannot be reduced to simple movements from a source to a target (culture or text). In a time of paradigm shifts, this book aims to explore the potential and interdisciplinary power of transfer as a concept...

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Engels, PDF, 5,9 MB, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2020

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Kayo Matsushita When news travels east

translation practices by Japanese newspapers

Journalism and unique translation practices by Japanese media today International news stories provided to the public basically rely on translation. Most of this translation is done not by translators, but by journalists with practically no training in translation. What happens when the norms of journalism and those of translation clash? In this book, the author, a trained conference interpreter and former international journalist, investigates translator decisions in the practice of Japanese news...

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Engels, PDF, 3,3 MB, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2019

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Doing double Dutch

the international circulation of literature from the Low Countries

The importance of a minor language in the field of world literature. Dutch literature is increasingly understood as a network of texts and poetics connected to other languages and literatures through translations and adaptations. In this book, a team of international researchers explores how Dutch literary texts cross linguistic, historical, geophysical, political, religious, and disciplinary borders, and reflects on a wide range of methods for studying these myriad border crossings. As a result,...

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Engels, 336 pagina's (PDF, 6,1 MB), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2018

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Between text and tradition

Pietro d’Abano and the reception of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata physica in the Middle Ages

New insights into Pietro d'Abano's unique approach to translations. The commentary of Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica, published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source for the investigation of the complex relationship between text, translation, and commentary in a non-curricular part of the corpus Aristotelicum. As the eight articles in this volume show, the study of Pietro's commentary not only provides valuable insights into...

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Engels, Frans, 280 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Science translated

Latin and vernacular translations of scientific treatises in medieval Europe

Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase....

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Frans, Engels, 478 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB), Leiven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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