Translation as Afterlife

Looking specifically at Modern Greek, Polish, Dutch, and Swedish, this event interrogates what it means to translate and publish marginalised and minor European languages into English. Translations from French, German and Spanish (and more recently, non-European giants such as Ar ...  Show more

With Adriana X. Jacobs (Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature), Kasia Szymanska (Junior Research Fellow in Slavonic Studies, University College), chaired by Kate Costello (DPhil candidate in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature). In Michaelmas 2016 the OCCT Discussion Group will ...  Show more

In this Ancient Egyptian poem, a man talks with his own soul about whether it is better to live or die. Read by Barbara Ewing. Translated by Richard Bruce Parkinson. The poem is known from a single copy, c. 1800 BC, whose beginning is lost. It is a dialogue between a man and his ...  Show more

Dans le podcast "Ton bac de français avec Anissa", on te propose de réviser 12 œuvres littéraires au programme !

Après avoir écouté cet épisode, tu en sauras plus sur l'auteure, le contexte historique et littéraire, les grandes thématiques sans oublier la "petite info en ...

Amir Artaban Sedaghat’s Translating Rumi into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond (Routledge, 2023) engages Rumi, the 13th-century Muslim Persian mystic and a best-selling poet, and the paradoxes of English translations associated with him. Sedaghat explores generative qu ...  Show more

<h3 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Un des plus grands auteurs français. Pourquoi son roman est devenu un chef-d'œuvre culte de la littérature française ? Découvrez la vie de Marcel Proust dans cet épisode...</h3>

▶ La vidéo YouTube de l'épisode + sous-titres :  <a href= "https://youtu ...