selected reading posted to Blackboard, or an anthologized essay in the texts assigned for this course. You are asked to write a
English 3346 University of Houston-Downtown
Introduction to Literary Translation
Dr. Davidson
READING JOURNAL 2
Please respond to any 6 of the following 8 essays noted below and appearing as either 1) a selected reading posted to Blackboard, or 2) an anthologized essay in the texts assigned for this course. You are asked to write a minimum of 300 words per entry and share your response to the ideas presented by the author.
Course texts:
Biguenet, John and Rainer Schulte (Eds.). The Craft of Translation. Chicago: U of Chicago Press,
1989.
Biguenet, John and Rainer Schulte (Eds.). Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays from
Dryden to Derrida. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1992.
READINGS FOR JOURNAL 2 – Due to Blackboard Friday, April 24, by midnight
- 1) “Understanding Dictionaries” (Bellos)
- 2) “Custom Cuts: Making Forms Fit” (Bellos)
- 3) “Match Me If You Can: Translating Humor” (Bellos)
- 4) “Avatar: A Parable of Translation” (Bellos)
- 5) “Translating Poetry”(Bonnefoy)
- 6) “Word Music and Translation” (Borges)
- 7) “fromDesTours deBabel”(Derrida)
- 8) “’Ziv, that light’: Translation and Tradition of Paul Celan” (Felstiner)
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