British Novel from the Origin to the Victorian Period

Syllabus: Section: A 

Introduction to the Study of Literature

Course Contents:

Section A

1. Literature: definitions and nature; Literature and life; The impulse behind literature; Themes of literature; Classification of literature; Elements of literature 

2. Approaches to literature: biographical, historical, social, textual

3. Studying Poetry: Poetic language: literal meaning first; Making associations for meaning; Speaker and tone; Repetition; Puns; Paradoxes, Irony and ambiguity; Imagery; Figures of speech; Reading aloud; Rhythm and meter; Sound and rhyme; Syntax, grammar and punctuation; Standard poetic forms; Analyzing and evaluating poetry: Questions to ask and answer

Sessional on English Phonetics and Phonology

This course is designed to enhance students’ knowledge of English phonetics and phonology through practice.

course content:

Organs of speech; Production of English speech sounds; Stress and intonation; Transcription of English words; Socio-phonetics variations

Theory and Practice of Translation

This course will introduce to the students different issues and theories of translation and their application in the task of translation.

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. 

Contemporary British Fiction

The course introduces to the students a wide variety of contemporary British fiction, which reflects the social, political, and economic contexts. It offers the 16 learners an opportunity to explore different issues related to socio-political upheavals in post-war Britain.

Section A

1 Graham Greene: The End of the Affair

2 George Orwell: 1984

Section B 

1. Julian Barnes: England, England

2. Zadie Smith: White Teeth