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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Zde je překlad do angličtiny. Názvy zahraničních institucí, fakult a kateder jsou převedeny do jejich oficiálních anglických ekvivalentů, aby byl text pro mezinárodní účastníky co nejsrozumitelnější. The research-educational week "Blind Spots in Literary Translations from/into Czech" is implemented through an online workshop, a two-day lecture series, and three workshops, including optional accompanying cultural activities. March 22, 2024 - online workshop (MS TEAMS): Dr. Jitka Zehnalová et al. (Translation and Interpreting Section, Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc): "Introduction to the issue of literary translation (from and into Czech)" April 22-27, 2024 in-person activities of the research-educational week (Venue: Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Křížkovského 10, Room 1.25): April 22 - Lecture series (from 9:45, 4 hrs) by specialists in literary translation on the topic "Blind Spots in Literary Translations from/into Czech" April 23 - Lecture series (from 9:45, 4 hrs) by specialists in literary translation on the topic "Blind Spots in Literary Translations from/into Czech" April 24 - Workshop A (9:45-13:00): Joanna Derdowska (University of Silesia in Katowice, PL): Translation, society, and the skeleton in the closet. The position of translations of Slovak literature in the Czech literary field April 25 - Workshop B1 (9:45-11:15): Matija Ivačić (Department of West Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, HR): Czech-Croatian blind spots in literary translations 1948-1968 as an expression of period ideology; Workshop B2 (11:30-13:00): Dorota Bielec - Natalia Palich (Institute of Slavonic Philology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, PL): What was not and is not translated from Czech into Polish from the 2nd half of the 20th century to the present - different perspectives April 26 - Workshop C1 (9:45-11:15): Anna Maria Perissutti (Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, IT): Narrative perspective and focalization in Italian translations of Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk; Workshop C2 (11:30-13:00): Suzana Kos (Department of West Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, HR): Lost (and found) in translation. Problems (and solutions?) in literary translations from Czech
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The program of the research-educational week (REW) "Czech-in to Literary Culture II." will focus on the issue of literary translation, ranging from the broadest questions regarding the possibilities and limits of the mutual translatability of cultures and the position of translated literature in Czech culture, down to specific partial solutions to linguistic problems that arise when translating literary works where Czech is either the source or the target language. We will be primarily interested in how concrete translation practice leads us to a mutual understanding of our cultures, as well as to a deeper understanding of our own culture through contact with another. This is especially true at moments when, during the translation process, we find ourselves in what appears to be a "zone of untranslatability". The aim of the REW will therefore be to explore "blind spots" in literary translations from/into Czechi.e., to identify difficult (or perhaps untranslatable) linguistic, artistic, historical, or cultural phenomena, to analyze and interpret the causes of their untranslatability into other languages and cultures, and potentially to seek ways to interpret their specific characteristics.
Upon successful completion of this research-educational week, the student will acquire the ability to critically analyze and interpret "blind spots" in literary translationspecifically the linguistic, historical, and cultural phenomena that complicate or prevent the smooth transfer of text between Czech and other languages. They will deepen their awareness of the theoretical and practical limits of intercultural translatability and learn to view translation practice not merely as a linguistic process, but primarily as an instrument for mutual cultural understanding and one's own cultural self-reflection. Simultaneously, they will master specific strategies and partial solutions for handling difficult translation situations, thereby strengthening their intercultural competence and sensitivity to the social and ideological subtexts that shape translated literature.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge of Czech literature and language, and fundamental issues in translation theory.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Seminar Work
1) Attendance at lectures 2) Active participation in all workshops 3) Reading assigned materials for the workshop
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Recommended literature
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Bachmann-Medick, Doris (2016). Cultural Turns. New Orientations in the Study of Culture.. Berlin.
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Baker, Mona; Saldanha, Gabriela (2019). Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. 3rd. London.
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Benjamin, Walter (2011). "Úkol překladatele". In týž: Výbor z díla II. Teoretické pasáže. Praha: Oikúmené, s. 58-68..
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Fišer, Zbyněk (2009). Překlad jako kreativní proces. Teorie a praxe funkcionalistického překládání. Brno.
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Kufnerová, Zlata (1994). Překládání a čeština. Jinočany.
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Steiner, George (2010). Po Bábelu. Otázky jazyka a překladu. Praha.
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Vajdová Libuše, ed. (2007). Myslenie o preklade. Bratislava.
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