Sumários
William Carlos Williams (work presentation and rewriting); The concept of "Imaginary Translation"; Translation exercise.
12 Novembro 2015, 18:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
William Carlos Williams: work presentation and rewriting.
Analysing different versions of the same translation by WCW: "Alamos del prado".http://uspoetrytranslation.blogspot.pt/2015/11/william-carlos-williams-imaginary.html.
Antoine Berman's deforming tendencies in literary translation; Presentation on the influence of the translation of the Rubayat. Fernando Pessoa as translator and reader of American poets
5 Novembro 2015, 18:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Deforming tendencies in literary translation according to Antoine Berman:
http://uspoetrytranslation.blogspot.pt/2015/11/deforming-tendencies-in-literary.html
Work presentation on the influence of the translations of the Rubayat by Omar Khayam in English language Modernism (via Edward Fitzgerald).
Fernando Pessoa: translator and reader of North-American poets (work presentation).
Translation strategies and procedures. / T. S. Eliot: interculturality and quotationalism in his work (students' presentation)
29 Outubro 2015, 18:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Translation Strategies and Procedures: Vinay and Dalbernet (1995), Catford (1965) and Chesterman (2002):
http://uspoetrytranslation.blogspot.pt/2015/11/translation-strategies-and-procedures.html
T. S. Eliot: interculturality and quotationalism in his work. Students' presentation: rewriting The Waste Land in our modern days.
Ezra Pound's translations in Cathay (cont.). Discussion of F. R. Jones's intro to Translating Poetry as Expert Action. Gary Snyder, the Oriental Tradition and Nature Writing + translations.
22 Outubro 2015, 18:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Ezra Pound's translations in Cathay: collective translation of "Song of the Bowmen of Shu":
http://uspoetrytranslation.blogspot.pt/2015/10/cancao-dos-arqueiros-de-shu-primeiros.html
Discussion of F. R. Jones's introduction to Translating Poetry as Expert Action: what it takes to translate poetry and who it takes (agentes, players, actors).
Gary Snyder, the Oriental tradition and nature writing: how Chinese landscape poetry influenced the writer and opened up the scope of the San Francisco Renaissance.
Work presentation: translations by Gary Snyder and from Gary Snyder.
Daniel Katz's excerpt in American Modernism's Expatriate Scene - discussion. Contextualization of Ezra Pound and High Modernism. Ezra Pound's translations in Cathay.
15 Outubro 2015, 18:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Daniel Katz's excerpt in American Modernism's Expatriate Scene - discussion. The non-nativity of English in the United States and Henry James's metaphor of the kidnapped, ravaged, maiden. Translation for American modernists as mediation between American identity and European and other cultures: http://uspoetrytranslation.blogspot.pt/2015/09/t-p-c-8-de-out-homework-oct-8-daniel.html
Contextualization of Ezra Pound and High Modernism. Reference to the Pisan Cantos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz-_8QxoFfA
Booking of class presentations.
Ezra Pound's translations in Cathay (1915). Presentation by Ricardo on the translation of "Farewell to a Friend" / "Taking Leave of a Friend" by Li Bai.