Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity

Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity
Author: Francisco Cota Fagundes
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820488615

This interdisciplinary volume centers on the interrelations of storytelling and various manifestations of cultural identity, from written to oral and from autobiographical to regional and national. Indigenous storytelling, as well as storytelling for and by children and the elderly, are the main focus of these essays. Together, these fifteen texts make a significant contribution toward a deeper understanding of various aspects of textual and oral narrative: they broaden the lines of inquiry into multidisciplinary and multicultural interests, particularly those centering on the construction, expression, and contextualization of various types of identity; and they illustrate the deployment of storytelling not only as testimony, contestation, and subversion - but also as peacebuilding. Many countries, languages and cultures are herein represented - from the United States and Canada to Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia, from English to Japanese to Greek to Italian to the languages of indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Philippines.

Translation and Identity in the Americas

Translation and Identity in the Americas
Author: Edwin Gentzler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136036865

Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler’s book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of translation studies. Building on research from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, linguistics, feminism and ethnic studies and including case studies from Brazil, Canada and the Caribbean, this book shows that translation is one of the primary means by which a culture is constructed: translation in the Americas is less something that happens between separate and distinct cultures and more something that is capable of establishing those very cultures. Using a variety of texts and addressing minority and oppressed groups within cultures, Translation and Identity in the Americas highlights by example the cultural role translation policies play in a discriminatory process: the consequences of which can be social marginalization, loss of identity and psychological trauma. Translation and Identity the Americas will be critical reading for students and scholars of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.

Doubts and Directions in Translation Studies

Doubts and Directions in Translation Studies
Author: Yves Gambier
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027216809

Like previous collections based on congresses of the European Society of Translation Studies (EST), this volume presents the latest insights and findings in an ever-changing, ever-challenging domain. The twenty-six papers, carefully chosen from about 140 presented at the 4th EST Congress, offer a bird's eye view of the most pressing concerns and most exciting vistas in Translation Studies today. The editors' final choices reflect a focus on quality of approach, originality of topic, and clarity of presentation, and aim at capturing the most salient developments in the contemporary theory, methodology and technology of TS. As always in EST, the themes covered relate to translation as well as interpreting. They include discussion of a broad range of text-types and skopoi, and a diversity of themes, such as translation universals, translation strategies, translation and ideology, perception of translated humor, translation tools, etc. Many of the papers force us to take a fresh look at seemingly well established paradigms and familiar notions, while also making recourse to work being done in other disciplines (Semiotics, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Contrastive Studies).

Triangulating Translation

Triangulating Translation
Author: Fabio Alves
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2003-11-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027296049

This book contains a selection of papers presented in a subsection on translation process analysis at the II Brazilian International Translators' Forum, held on 23-27 July 2001. The volume builds on the notion of triangulation, i.e., the combined use of different methods of data elicitation and analyses, to discuss methodological issues and actual experimental methods in the field of translation process research. Grouped in three parts, the seven contributions raise issues concerned, among others, with the translation-pragmatics interface, the role of inter-subjectivity, the attempts at modeling what accounts for translation competence, and the effect of think-aloud on translation speed, revision, and segmentation. The volume also examines the process of translation in terms of relevant measurements which can validate some of the instruments used in the triangulation approach and fosters the application of triangulation as a pedagogical instrument to be applied to translators' training. The book will certainly find an audience among translation scholars doing experimental work and students and practitioners interested in capturing the translation process.

Visões

Visões
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Iluminuras
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2020-10-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 6555190590

Talvez o poeta mais original da literatura inglesa, William Blake foi uma espécie de símbolo das manifestações socioculturais dos anos 1960 e 1970. Ao lado da psicologia de Carl Jung e Sigmund Freud, da filosofia e da religião orientais, das experiências da geração beat e do flower-power, via-se em sua poesia a expressão de uma nova era de Aquário, a rejeição de uma ordem mundial fundada no materialismo em detrimento da espiritualidade. Passado meio século, aquelas manifestações são história, ou adquiriram outras formas, mas a ordem mundial permanece, de ponta-cabeça, mais materialista e mais bruta. E a poesia de Blake continua instigante expressão dos valores humanos, ainda mais relevante. Visões assinala essa relevância: reúne onze livros que Blake publicou de 1789 a 1795, com os quais procura evidenciar a coerência do essencial da obra e afastar a distorcida percepção de insanidade do autor. Os poemas testemunham a formação e o amadurecimento de sua visão de mundo, num fértil período de quase sete anos, quando na casa dos trinta: aqui o leitor encontra dos poemas líricos das Canções de Inocência e Experiência até o que se convencionou chamar de "profecias menores". A partir de 1794, Blake embarcou na sequência dos poemas-profecias menores, que o prepararam para os maiores (Milton e Jerusalem, escritos e gravados quase ao mesmo tempo entre 1804 e 1820). O primeiro deles é Europa, uma Profecia, uma narrativa política, seguido de O Livro de Urizen. A Canção de Los, O Livro de Ahania e O Livro de Los, todos de 1795, compõem a "Bíblia do Inferno" prometida em O Matrimônio do Céu e do Inferno: "Possuo também A Bíblia do Inferno, que o mundo há de possuir, quer queira, quer não". O escritor Anthony Burgess disse com clareza: "A razão, na verdade, é perigosa, assim como é a ciência; se todos nós vivermos num estado de liberdade individual plena, despreocupados com as leis, confiando no poder da percepção e, num nível inferior, no instinto, alcançaremos o céu na terra, que Blake chama de Jerusalém no prefácio de Milton". Na terminologia blakeana, alcança-se a plenitude espiritual através da imaginação. "Se as portas da percepção estivessem limpas, tudo se mostraria ao homem tal como é: infinito." Pouco lido e ignorado por seus contemporâneos, Blake foi "descoberto" vinte anos após sua morte, em 1827, quando impressões tipográficas dos poemas começaram a aparecer. Mas jamais foi popular, sempre foi controverso, mesmo entre outros poetas. Thomas Stearns Eliot, por exemplo, reconheceu nele uma "honestidade contra a qual o mundo inteiro conspira, porque é desagradável. A poesia de Blake tem o desagrado da grande poesia". Quase um elogio, porque, para Eliot, essa honestidade era limitada por sua falta de educação literária, o que o tornava um "ingênuo". Blake, concluiu Eliot, tinha "uma notável e original sensibilidade para a língua e a musicalidade da língua, e o dom da visão alucinada. Se estes tivessem sido controlados por um respeito pela razão impessoal, teria sido melhor para ele". Faltava a seu gênio "uma estrutura de ideias tradicionais e reconhecidas que lhe teriam impedido de entregar-se a uma filosofia própria, e assim concentrasse a atenção nos problemas do poeta. [...] A concentração resultante dessa estrutura de mitologia, teologia e filosofia é uma das razões pelas quais Dante é um clássico, e Blake apenas um poeta de gênio". Eliot falava em defesa das tradições latinas, a seu ver fundamentais para a cultura do Ocidente, ciente de que eram exatamente o que Blake rechaçava — e no entanto, dogmático, deu o veredito. Blake decerto não lhe teria dado ouvidos. "A verdade jamais será dita de modo compreensível sem que nela se creia. Suficiente! ou Demasiado."

Hegel

Hegel
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Edicoes Loyola
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1983
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780192875648

Intended for the reader with no prior knowledge of philosophy, Singer's book provides a broad survey of Hegel's ideas and an account of the main themes of his major works.

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Total Pages: 292
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Translation and World Literature

Translation and World Literature
Author: Susan Bassnett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317246594

Translation and World Literature offers a variety of international perspectives on the complex role of translation in the dissemination of literatures around the world. Eleven chapters written by multilingual scholars explore issues and themes as diverse as the geopolitics of translation, cosmopolitanism, changing media environments and transdisciplinarity. This book locates translation firmly within current debates about the transcultural movements of texts and challenges the hegemony of English in world literature. Translation and World Literature is an indispensable resource for students and scholars working in the fields of translation studies, comparative literature and world literature.

Insomnia

Insomnia
Author: Philippe Dupuy
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2014-12-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1594658382

The charming and humorous adventures of a handsome Parisian novelist, as recounted with a uniquely European sensibility.