Description
This reading-intensive creative writing course does not require knowledge of a second language. It's a great way to start learning one, though! Using an array of resources ranging from the old (dictionaries, books, and language acquisition) to the new (translation software, artificial intelligence, Google), students will explore the huge and fascinating problem of the translation of poetry. Working at your own pace over the course of the semester, you will research, select, and translate into English a portfolio of poems from the language of your choice. Class sessions revolve around sharing, discussing, troubleshooting and critiquing this work. These weekly meetings will also serve as an introduction to key ideas in the theory of translation, including readings such as:
? Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse
? Walter Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator”
? Anne Carson, NOX
? Lydia Davis, Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
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