Reading
the Target: Translation as Translation
University
of East Anglia
School
of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
School
of Language and Communication Studies
23rd
and 24th March 2013
The fifth Postgraduate
Translation Symposium at the University of East Anglia aims to examine
translation as a form of literature in its own right: since Lawrence Venuti’s
influential work on the translator’s visibility (1995), much progress has been
made in the academic study of translation in this regard, but many critics and
publishers remain reluctant to acknowledge the translator’s involvement in the
creation of a new text or the status of these texts as anything more than a
duplicate in another language.
The symposium aims to
explore the following questions: what are the effects of cultural contexts,
literary systems and philosophical and ideological cues on the appreciation of
translated literature? What are the power structures and hierarchies that
translated literature must negotiate in order to achieve acceptance? What are
the benefits to a culture that acknowledges the presence of translations within
its literary canon?
We invite submissions for
presentations by postgraduate research students and academics across a wide
range of disciplines. Fields of particular interest include, but are not
limited to, the following:
- Performance and
adaptations
- Cross-genre translation
- The diversity of overt
forms of translation
- Concepts of authorship in
translation
- The translation of poetry
- The role of translation in
religious texts
- Pseudo-translation
- Ethical and political
considerations in translation
- The visibility of
translation in modern forms of text and media (Subtitling, Films, Games)
Please send proposals of no
more than 250 words (with bibliographical references and a short biographical
note) for 20-minute papers to translationsymposium@uea.ac.uk
by Friday 7 December 2012.
Please address all
correspondence to:
Lina Fisher
University of East Anglia
School of Literature, Drama
and Creative Writing
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
The Organising Committee:
Nozomi Abe, Moira Eagling, Lina Fisher, James Hadley
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