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Monday, October 30, 2017 In the Guesthouse of Language: Translation as Asylum
Christine IvanovicMax Kade Distinguished Professor of German (Brown University & University of Vienna) Olin Humanities, Room 201 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 One of the most persistent topics in translation studies is the differentiation between “Domestication” and “Foreignization” – two alternative modes of literary translation first conceptualized by Friedrich Schleiermacher and (in English) coined by Lawrence Venuti. What happens when literary texts demand a crossing of borders? How do we perceive, conceptualize, and argue about the translation of literature, and, ultimately, about the translation of people? What do “Domestication” and “Foreignization” reflect when it is not texts but rather people who are crossing borders? How do these questions define the task of the translator today? Professor Ivanovic will discuss these questions in response to eminent thinkers such as Friedrich Hölderlin, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and Elfriede Jelinek. For further information, please contact Thomas Wild: [email protected] |