Translating Seminar 1

Tutor:

Daniela JOBERTOVÁ, Julius NEUMANN, Martina SCHLEGELOVÁ

Synopsis:

The seminar introduces students to the problems of translation of a dramatic text as an autonomous creative activity. On the one hand, it tries to strengthen their own linguistic creativity and, of course, their feel for the need to make the text stageworthy. On the other hand, they are led to honour the original and to seek appropriate stylistic parallels to the original.

Prerequisites:

- participation at the seminar (2 absences per semester are tolerated);

- continuous work on translations of assigned texts;

- paper comparing in writing two (or more) translations of the same foreign language original;

- term paper: translation of a coherent excerpt from a chosen text.

Study Objectives:

The goal of the seminar is to familiarize directing, dramaturgy, theory and criticism students with the basic principles of theatrical translations if the students' specialization is neither philology or translatology, but if in their future work they will still be working with translated texts. Students are to learn both certain aspects of general translation theory and important periods and figures of Czech translating. An integral component of the practical part of the seminar is comparing existing translations and, of course, one's own translation attempts, whether as a group or individually.

Outline and Syllabus:

Theoretical aspects:

1. Theory of translation and translating practice

2. Czech as a target language in relation to languages of originals

3. Specific features of theatrical translations

4. Verbal action and linguistic stylization

5. The problems of translating verse and translating from various systems of versification

Pracitcal partt:

1. Comparison of existing Czech translations of one original (prose, rhythmicized prose, verse)

2. Work on students' own translations.

Study materials:

In the seminar, students work both with various Czech translations of the same originals that are compared with each other and with original plays (in English or French).

The texts are selected according to the students' language abilities.

Literature:

Jiří Levý, Umění překladu, (1963), Ivo Železný, Praha, 1998.

Jiří Levý, České teorie překladu, (1957), Ivo Železný, Praha, 1996,

I. Vývoj překladatelských teorií a metod v české literatuře,

II. Sborník zásadních studií o překladu.

Olga Krijtová, Pozvání k překladatelské praxi (Kapitoly o překládání beletrie), FF-UK, Praha, 1996.

Zlata Kufnerová, Milena Poláčková (ed.) a kol., Překládání a čeština, H+H, Jinočany, 1994.

Georges Mounin, Teoretické problémy překladu, Karolinum - nakladatelství UK, Praha, 1992.

Jan Vilikovský, Překlad jako tvorba, Ivo Železný, Praha, 2002.

Blahoslav Hečko, Dobrodružství překladu, Ivo Železný, Praha, 2000.

Milan Hrdlička, Literární překlad a komunikace, Nakladatelství ISV, Praha, 2003.

Milan Hrala (editor), Kapitoly z dějin českého překladu, Nakladatelství Karolinum, Praha, 2002.

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	místnost K330 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 10:30–14:00 (paralelka 1) místnost K108 Pracovna pedagogů (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 10:30–14:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský režie a dramaturgie ČD (compulsory subject)