English Novel from Defoe to Hardy

Syllabus: Section: A 

History of American Literature

Syllabus: Section: A

1. Colonial Period

2. The Revolutionary Age

3. The American Independence

Translation Studies

Syllabus: (Section: A) 

Walter Benjamin: "The Task of the Translator" 

Roman Jakobson: "On Linguistic Aspects of Translation". 

G.C. Spivak: "The Politics of Translation." 

L. Venuti: "The Translator's Invisibility". 

Rationale: The course is des

References:

 Books:

1.       Munday, Jeremy.  (2012). Introducing translation studies: Theories and applications. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge.

2.       Venuti, Lawrence. (Ed.). (2012).  The translation studies reader. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge.

 Articles:

1.      Bergdahl, Lovisha. (2009). Lost in translation: On the untranslatable and its ethical implications for religious pluralism. Journal of Philosophy of Education. 43 (1).

2.      Chapman, Edmund. (2016). Afterlives: Benjamin, Derrida and literature in translation.  A thesis submitted to the university of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the faculty of humanities.

3.        Davier, Lucile. (2014). the paradoxical invisibility of translation in the highly multilingual context of news agencies. Global Media and Communication.  10 (1):  53-72. DOI: 10.1177/1742766513513196

4.      Elmenfi, Fadil. (2013). Venuti's foreignization: Resistance against the Arabic culture.” International Journal of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies. 2 (1).

5.      Erton, İ. & Tanbi, Y. (2016). Significance of linguistics in translation education at the university level. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 12(2), 38-53

6.      Flèche, Betsy. (1999). The art of survival: The translation of Walter Benjamin. SubStance. 28(2): 95-109

7.      Jia, Hongwei. (2017). Roman Jakobson’s triadic division of translation revisited. Chinese Semiotic Studies. 13 (1): 31-46.  DOI: 10.1515/css-2017-0003

8.      Jinhui Liu & Jun Wen. (2018). Politics, policy and power in translation history. Perspectives.  DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2018.1525891

9.    Kučera, Henry. (1983).  Roman Jakobson. Language. 59 (4): 871-883

10.  Man, Paul De. (1985). Conclusions on Walter Benjamin's The Task of the Translator: The lesson of Paul de Man. Yale French Studies. 69: 25-46 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2929923

11.  Myskja, Kjetil. (2013). Foreignisation and resistance: Lawrence Venuti and his critics. Nordic Journal of English Studies.  12 (2): 1-23.

12.  Panda, Aditya Kumar. (2013). Politics and translation. The Criterion: An International Journal in English. 4 (2) 1-7

13.  Sandbank, Shimon. (2015). The translator’s impossible task: Variations on Walter Benjamin.” Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas.13 (2): 215-224

14.  St. André, J. (2011). Revisiting Walter Benjamin’s The Task of the Translator in light of his Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism. TTR, 24 (1), 103–123. https://doi.org/10.7202/1013256ar

15.  Ward, Dennis. (1973). Roman Jakobson's linguistic writings. The Slavonic and East European Review. 51 (124): 452-459 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4206752

16.  Zethsen, K.K. & Hill-Madsen, A.. (2016). Intralingual translation and its place within translation studies – A Theoretical Discussion. Meta.  613: 692–708.

List of Suggested Reading:

1.       Bassnett, Susan. (2014).  Translation studies. 4th ed. New York: Routledge.

2.       Bassnett, S., & Harish T. (2000). Post-colonial translation: Theory and practice. New York: Routledge.

3.       Lefevere, Andre. (1992). Translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame. New York: Routledge.

4.       Mukherjee, Sujit. (1981). Translation as discovery and other essays on Indian literature in English translation. New Delhi: Allied

5.       Schulte, R., & Biguenet J,. (Eds.). (1992). Theories of translation: An anthology of essays from Dryden to Derrida. Chicago: U of Chicago P.

6.       Zaman, Niaz. (Ed.). (2013). Translation theory and practice. Dhaka: writers.ink.