Course Description: Translation of Narrative Texts in English - John Gilbert
This course is designed primarily as a practical course. Students will be expected to prepare typed translations of narrative and academic texts from Italian into English and after our discussion in class of possible translation solutions, students will upload their final drafts to the files on my Google Suite Drive. Narrative texts for translation will be drawn from a variety of authors and made available on this Moodle page. Particular attention will be given to contrastive grammatical analysis, lexical choice, dictionary usage, questions of style, and the concepts of equivalence and cultural untranslatability. Selected readings on translation theory will be made available, but no textbook. Monolingual and bilingual dictionaries (paper and/or online) are required and should be used in class discussion. There will be a written midterm exam at the end of the first semester and a final written exam at the end of the course, both exams consisting of a passage to translate into English. Passing the midterm exam is necessary before being able to do the final exam.
Ricevimento: Wednesdays at 11 am in Room 207 Via Santa Reparata 93 or by appointment john.gilbert@unifi.it.
