Course Schedule

09/08/10	Introductions; in-class activities and discussion on Queneau's Exercises in Style, NPR's “Bridging the Language Barrier”, and an audio clip from David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day
09/15/10	Just a Couple of Days, Pinsky's “On Translation”, and look at translation from program notes
09/22/10	Introduction and Schleiermacher's “On the Different Methods of Translating” from Theories, Derrida's “What is a 'Relevant' Translation?”, Luo's “Translation as Violence”, Scherr's “Mikhail Gasparov on the Art of Translation”
09/29/10	Benjamin's “On Translation”, Ortega y Gasset's “The Misery and the Splendor of Translation”, and Paz's “Translation: Literature and Letters” from Theories, Felstiner's “Translation and Tradition in Paul Celan” from Craft
10/06/10	Nabokov's “Problems of Translation” and Bonnefoy's “Translating Poetry” from Theories, Rabassa's “Translation as Metaphor” from Craft, Innis' “Language and the Thresholds of Sense”, Wang & Zhang's “Knowledge Necessary for the Interpretation of Language”, Suh's “Treacherous Translation”
10/13/10	Jakobson's “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation” and Schogt's “Semantic Theory and Translation Theory” from Theories, Tokowicz & Kroll's “Consequences of Ambiguity”
10/20/10	Guest Speaker: Dr. Judith Tschann Seidensticker's “On Trying to Translate Japanese” from Craft, Elahi's “Fake Farsi”, Kramsch's “Grammar Games”, Apter's “Translation for a Global Market”, excerpt from Clockwork Orange
10/27/10	Rodríguez' “Translating Queer Caribbean Localities”, Bolaki's “It Translated Well”, Hassan's “Agency and Translational Literature”, Naous' “Arabian Jazz”, Martín's “Multilingual Aesthetics and Limits of Chicano/a Identity”
11/03/10	Weaver's “The Process of Translation” from Craft, Walkowitz' “Unimaginable Largeness”, Wang's “Dynamic Function of Translation”, Sun's “Opening the Cultural Mind”, Abu-Mahfouz' “Translation as a Blending of Cultures”
11/10/10	Synthesis day: Midterm or mapping out theories of translation?
11/17/10	Present and submit proposals for projects—translation, historical, analytical—with class giving feedback; development of work groups/pairs where relevant
11/24/10	NO CLASS—Thanksgiving Break
12/01/10	Peden's “Building a Translation” from Craft, Azevedo's “Translation Strategies” Individual appointments to update final projects
12/08/10	Habegger's “Reading Emily Dickinson” Individual appointments to update final projects
12/15/10	Synthesis discussion, report on and turn in final projects, turn in evals