Lucia Boldrini - Essay

Question 1

Who wrote the essay ‘Comparative literature and translation, historical breaks and continuing debates: Can the past teach us something about the future?’

Answer 1

Lucia Boldrini

Question 2

Who remarked, “Today, comparative literature in one sense is dead”?

Answer 2

Susan Basnett in 1993

Question 3

Who remarked that comparative literature “has won its battles”?

Answer 3

Haun Saussy

Question 4

How does Stanley Corngold differentiate between translation and comparison?

Answer 4

Translation: carrying over a piece of a foreign language into one’s own.

Comparison: being momentary without one’s language, and thus respecting the otherness of languages and cultures.

Question 5

Name some works on Translation by Emily Apter

Answer 5

Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic (2017)

Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (2013)

The translation zone (2006)

Question 6

Who coined the term ‘Translation Zone’?

Answer 6

Emily S Apter

Question 7

what does translatio studii mean?

Answer 7

Latin for “transfer of learning”

means history is viewed as a linear succession of transfers of knowledge

or history is learning from one geographical place and time to another

Question 8

what does translatio imperii mean?

Answer 8

Latin for “Transfer of rule”

means history is viewed as a linear succession of transfers of an imperium (ruler)

Question 9

The World Republic of Letters (2004) was written by?

Answer 9

Pascale Casanova

Question 10

Who wrote ‘De vulgari eloquentia’ and Convivio?

Answer 10

Dante (written in Latin)

Question 11

Who wrote ‘A Treatise on the Astrolabe’

Answer 11

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 12

Who wrote Tresor in French, and a shorter version in Italian, the Tesoretto?

Answer 12

Brunetto Latini

Question 13

List the works by John Gower and languages it is written

Answer 13

Confessio Amantis, 1390-93 (middle English)
Mirour de l’homme, 1378 (French)
Vox Clamantis, 1386 (Latin)

Question 14

“And for that fewe men endite
In oure Englissh, I thence make
a bok for Engelondes sake,
the yer sextenthe of kyng Richard.”

Who said this

Answer 14

John Gower in Confessio Amantis

Question 15

Who coined the term “literary polysystem”

Answer 15

Even Zohar

Question 16

‘Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization’ (2006) is an ACLA report by?

Answer 16

Haun Saussy

Question 17

Apter calls the localisation of the English language to give it “local colour” as?

Answer 17

CNN creole

Question 18

Who wrote ‘The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan’?

Answer 18

Eric Cheyfitz

Question 19

Which author called Dante to be superior because of his easy translatability and closeness to common spoken Latin?

Answer 19

T S Elliot

Question 20

Which variety of Italien was used by Dante, Bocaccio and Petrarca? (Trecento masters)

Answer 20

Tuscan variety

Question 21

Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue(1712) was by?

Answer 21

Jonathan Swift

Question 22

“tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language”

who said?

Answer 22

Samuel Johnson in the preface to the dictionary (1755)