The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: From Language To Motion Picture
This article explores a couple of the issues involved with translation as it relates to the art of cinema.
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Felix Purat
- Jan 30
- 7 min
Translation as Anesthesia: Karl May In The 21st Century
This article delves into the at-times censorious nature of translation and uses Karl May's Winnetou trilogy as an example.
Felix Purat
- Jan 23
- 6 min
The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: Translating Geography
This articles goes into the nature of geography in literary translation.
Felix Purat
- Jan 15
- 6 min
Strategizing Over Dialect
This article explores the nature of translating dialects in literary translation.
Felix Purat
- Nov 28, 2022
- 7 min
How Translations Find New Reader Bases
Article delves into the process of translations finding new readers.
Felix Purat
- Nov 20, 2022
- 8 min
The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: Cross-Language Plagiarism
This article examines the consequences of cross-cultural plagiarization by looking at a famous case related to Polish and Holocaust Lit.
Felix Purat
- Nov 7, 2022
- 6 min
On The Recent Emergence of Parallel Translations
This article delves deeper into the nature of the current translation surge.
Felix Purat
- Nov 1, 2022
- 7 min
The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: Tinkering With Canons
This third article in the 101 series continues with exploring the ethics related to the power translators have to form literary canons.
Felix Purat
- Oct 25, 2022
- 5 min
Translation And Postcolonial Ireland
Article touches upon certain postcolonial dimensions regarding Irish literature, especially in Irish Gaelic.
Felix Purat
- Oct 17, 2022
- 7 min
The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: A Translator’s Boundaries
The second article in this series picks up where individual originality left off and explores its borders: where does a translator stop?
Felix Purat
- Oct 11, 2022
- 6 min
Literary Middlemen: How Dominant Languages Hinder the Literature of Minor Languages
This article details the struggle of Europe's minority language literature in translation, likening it to geopolitics.
Felix Purat
- Oct 3, 2022
- 8 min
The Ethics of Cultural Translation 101: Challenges To Originality
The first article in the Cultural Translation series exploring various ethical challenges in the field of translation.
Felix Purat
- Sep 27, 2022
- 6 min
Information Transfer and “Otherness”
Information transfer is used to bring cultural "otherness" into other languages via translation. But how much "otherness" is enough?
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