Translating Seminar 1

Course unit code:

207PKS1

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

Range:

2/T

Type of course unit:

Study plan Dramaturgie činoherního divadla (Mgr.) – compulsory subject
Study plan Teorie a kritika (Mgr.) – optional subject
Study plan Režie činoherního divadla (Mgr.) – optional subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

Study plan Dramaturgie činoherního divadla (Mgr.) – 1st year

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Daniela JOBERTOVÁ, Julius NEUMANN

Name of lecturer(s):

Daniela JOBERTOVÁ, Julius NEUMANN

Study Objectives:

The goal of the seminar is to create a complete translation of a chosen work. While translating, students are led to work with various kinds of dictionaries and manuals and are shown the most common translation mistakes and deficiencies.

Mode of delivery:

Comparison of existing translations, group translating, comparison and assessment of one's own translation.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Minimal requirement is a pre-college knowledge of a foreign language (English, German, French, Russian)

Recommended optional programme components

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

This course introduces students to drama text translation issues as an autonomous creative activity; on one side there is an effort to enhance their language creativey and feeling for the needs of a stage presented text and on the other a guiding to a respect for the basis material and investigation of a sufficient style level in relation to the original.

Theory aspects:

1. Translation theory and practice

2. Czech as the target language in relation to the original

3. The particulars of theatre translations

4. Word negotiation and language stylization

5. Problematic translations and translating various poetry systems

Practical section:

1. Comparison of existing Czech translations of one original base material (prose, rhythm prose, poetry)

2. Work on one's translation

Study materials:

This course works with various Czech translations of basis material which are comparable and with theatre play originals (in English or French)

These texts have been selected according to the language skills of the students.

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.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria

- class attendance (2 absences tolerated per semester)

- on-going translation preparations of assigned texts

- partial class work: written comparison of two (or more) translations of the same foreign language basis;

- final semester paper: a translation of an compact excerpt from a selected text.

Language of instruction:

Czech

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:

	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 () 14:00–14:45 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Datum	Den	Čas	Tutor	Místo	Notes	Č. paralelky
	Tue	14:00–14:45				paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

Dramaturgie činoherního divadla (Mgr.) (compulsory subject, optional subject)
Teorie a kritika (Mgr.) (optional subject)
Režie činoherního divadla (Mgr.) (optional subject)