Lucia Boldrini - Essay Flashcards
Who wrote the essay ‘Comparative literature and translation, historical breaks and continuing debates: Can the past teach us something about the future?’
Lucia Boldrini
Who remarked, “Today, comparative literature in one sense is dead”?
Susan Basnett in 1993
Who remarked that comparative literature “has won its battles”?
Haun Saussy
How does Stanley Corngold differentiate between translation and comparison?
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.
Name some works on Translation by Emily Apter
Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic (2017)
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (2013)
The translation zone (2006)
Who coined the term ‘Translation Zone’?
Emily S Apter
what does translatio studii mean?
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
what does translatio imperii mean?
Latin for “Transfer of rule”
means history is viewed as a linear succession of transfers of an imperium (ruler)
The World Republic of Letters (2004) was written by?
Pascale Casanova
Who wrote ‘De vulgari eloquentia’ and Convivio?
Dante (written in Latin)
Who wrote ‘A Treatise on the Astrolabe’
Geoffrey Chaucer
Who wrote Tresor in French, and a shorter version in Italian, the Tesoretto?
Brunetto Latini
List the works by John Gower and languages it is written
Confessio Amantis, 1390-93 (middle English)
Mirour de l’homme, 1378 (French)
Vox Clamantis, 1386 (Latin)
“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
John Gower in Confessio Amantis
Who coined the term “literary polysystem”
Even Zohar
‘Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization’ (2006) is an ACLA report by?
Haun Saussy
Apter calls the localisation of the English language to give it “local colour” as?
CNN creole
Who wrote ‘The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan’?
Eric Cheyfitz
Which author called Dante to be superior because of his easy translatability and closeness to common spoken Latin?
T S Elliot
Which variety of Italien was used by Dante, Bocaccio and Petrarca? (Trecento masters)
Tuscan variety
Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue(1712) was by?
Jonathan Swift
“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?
Samuel Johnson in the preface to the dictionary (1755)
