Course: Literary Translation 1

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Course title Literary Translation 1
Course code KSU/7PUT1
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech, Ukrainian
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Merzová Radana, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The content of individual seminars will be analysis of published translation and translations made by students. We shall work with literary texts of various genres and from various historical periods.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
Learning outcomes
Students will get familiar with the specific features of literary translation. The topics are selected in a way that the seminar will give space to discussion and creative approach to literary translation. As recommended in the Czech translatological tradition, we shall accentuate both the linguistic and extralinguistic approaches. In the first term of this facultative discipline we shall work predominantly with parallel Czech and Ukrainian texts and analyze and evaluate translations by prominent Czech translators. Students will come up with their own solutions to the translatological problems and give each other a feedback. Those who are interested will be prepared for the translation competition organized by the Philosophical Faculty in the University of Ostrava.
Students will get familiar with the specific features of literary translation and will acquire the skills to translate literary texts and evaluate creatively the translated texts.
Prerequisites
A practical knowledge of Ukrainian and Czech languages, at least B2 level of the European Framework of Reference for Languages, knowledge of basic translatological methods and strategies, a feeling for language.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

? Class-to-class translation of assigned texts of various genres (the homework is important) ? Active participation ? Writing and defending a translation of a prosaic or poetic text, 2 standard pages
Recommended literature
  • Hrdlička, M.:. miniatury, Praha, UK 1996.
  • Kol. autorů:. Český překlad 1945 - 2003. Praha 2004.
  • Kol. autorů:. Tajemná translatologie. Praha 2009.
  • Levý, J.:. (1996). České teorie překladu (Vývoj překladatelských teorií a metod v české literatuře), sv. 1. 2. Praha.
  • Levý, J. Umění překladu. Praha 1998.
  • VRBOVÁ, Alena. Stylistika pro překladatele. Praha: Karolinum, 1998..
  • Zlata Kufnerová aj. (2003). Překládání a čeština. Jinočany.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Ukrainian Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Ukrainian Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -