Syllabus
Week 1
Intro/Fiction I
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (úryvek)
Week 2-3
Fiction II
Ken Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (úryvek)
- accuracy vs fluency
Week 4-5
Journalese I
Jude Sheerin: Malawi windmill boy with big fans
Week 6-7
Journalese II
William Saletan: No smoking in your own apartment
Week 8-9
Journalese III
Gretchen Rubin: A secret to happiness? Don’t get organized
Week 10
Poetry
Benjamin Zephaniah: Miss World & Talking Turkeys
- meter, fundamental prosodic elements relevant for translation
Week 11-12
Fiction III
Allyson Armistead: A Girl in Red (úryvek)
Week 13 (an optional follow-up activity)
Dubbing from audio
Ken Robinson: a TED lecture on creativity (úryvek)
- dubbing from audio into a script; translation and peer-review
Annotation
This course aims to familiarise students with various translation techniques applied to selected samples of Anglo-American documentary or near-documentary prose, journalese, short fiction, poetry and drama. The course puts strong emphasis on translations from English into Czech.