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Full-Text Articles in European Languages and Societies
On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney
On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney
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Translation of and commentary on Baudelaire's "On Tasso in Prison," which is an ekphrastic poem after Delacroix's painting of the same name.
While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson
While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson
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A free rendering of Max Alhau's "While dreaming, while writing," with commentary. The original source text is included.
Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston
Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston
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Arnold Johnston's translations of Baudelaire's "The Lovely Ship" and "Invitation to the Voyage."
Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang
Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang
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Susanna Lang's translations of Nohad Salameh's "I Greet You, My Twin" and "Dance of the One/the Moon."
The Translator-Function: Translating Bande-Dessinée For The Anglophone Reader, Ryan C. Gomez
The Translator-Function: Translating Bande-Dessinée For The Anglophone Reader, Ryan C. Gomez
Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs
This thesis focuses on the question of translator roles in literary theory. I characterize these roles between positions that have traditionally been described by literary and philosophical theorists such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. By examining the products of translation (French-language bandes-dessinées and their English translations), and considering critical literary and translation theories, I demonstrate the unique position held by translators and their work through the proposal of what I call the translator-function (modeled after Foucault’s author-function). The principal aim of this thesis is to problematize preconceived ideas about translators and to examine the unique position of the …
(M)Other Lands, (M)Other Tongues: Resistance To The Linear In Two Postcolonial Moroccan Texts, Julia Charra
(M)Other Lands, (M)Other Tongues: Resistance To The Linear In Two Postcolonial Moroccan Texts, Julia Charra
Senior Projects Spring 2020
This project focuses on French language novels by two Moroccan authors, Love in Two Languages by Abdelkebir Khatibi and With Downcast Eyes by Tahar Ben Jelloun. Both these novels were written in the 1980s. In Love in Two Languages, which is a novel with a deconstructed plot, the narrator deals with the struggles of having a French lover while being Moroccan, ie. from a country that was colonized by France, as well as his strained relationship with the French language. Ben Jelloun’s book, With Downcast Eyes, is about a young Moroccan girl who moves to France with her …