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Center for Translation Studies

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Reading a Different Way

The Center for Translation Studies was founded on the idea that translation studies is both the study of translation and of cultural translation. The process of creating literature is a process of cultural translation, the translation emerges as a way to rethink both the cultural specificity of texts and their relation to other periods, cultures, languages and traditions. Graduate students in the Center thus integrate the study and practice of the art and craft of translation with the study of literary texts as translations.

Francis Bacon of Studies Exercise (pdf)
Wordsworth To Skylark Exercise (pdf)

Multiple Translations

The practice of retranslating works from the past and the present has been and will be a natural part of literary activities. Multiple translations constitute an important pedagogical tool to revitalize the act of reading and interpreting, to bring students and readers back into the dynamics of the original text, and to make the act of reading once again an enjoyable one.

The various interpretive perspectives that multiple translations bring to a text will engage the reader to participate in a literary work rather than merely describe it. In this sense, the study of multiple translations substantially enlarges the interpretive process and perspectives that readers bring to the text.

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