15SJSJ052 - History of Serbian Translation

Course specification
Course title History of Serbian Translation
Acronym 15SJSJ052
Study programme Serbian Language and Literature for Ethnic Minorities
Module
Type of study first degree undergraduate academic studies
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    ESPB 4.0 Status
    Condition Oblik uslovljenosti
    The goal Familiarization with the historical and theoretical issues of Serbian translation, an overview of the development of theoretic thought about translation, and a comparative analysis of translations from different epochs
    The outcome Knowledge of the historical process and theoretical questions of Serbian translation.
    Contents
    Contents of lectures The period of Enlightenment: the role of literary translations, the adaptations of the original works, and Imanuel Janković’s translations. Bilingual editions: Moravska pesma [Moravian song]. Public interest in the theoretical issues of translation: J. Subotić (Some thoughts about how we should translate foreign Classical poetic writings). The role of translating the Holy Scripture in the emergence of the Serbian literary language and the expansion of the ideas of Vuk Karadžić about the national language in the theoretical writings about translation (Vuk S. Karadžić: Novi zavjet-Predgovor [New Testament-Foreword], 1847, Ogledi Svetog pisma na srpskom jeziku , Leipzig, 824. Anonymous: About translation from German to Serbian). The view of J. Hadžić and Laza Kostić about Joksim Nović Otočanin’s translation of Homer. Zmaj about translation. Issues of the so-called Serbianization in the repertoire of the Serbian National Theatre from 1861 to 1914. The quarrel between L. Kostić and J. Skerlić about the translation of Homer. The translation principles of Bogdan Popović and Milan Đurčin. Isidora Sekulić about language peculiarities and the possibilities of translation. Stanislav Vinaver’s translation of Rabelais. Sreten Marić's translation of Gulliver. Danilo Kiš about translating poetry. Dragoslav Andrić: the translator of unconventional literature. Zoran Paunović’s translation of Joyce’s Ulysses.
    Contents of exercises Theoretical writings and translations of the above mentioned Serbian authors are read and analysed, and existing translations of the works of world literature from different periods are compared.
    Literature
    1. 1. Sibinović, Miodrag: Original i prevod, Bg., 1979. 2. Sibinović, Miodrag: Novi original. Uvod u prevođenje, Bg., 1990. 3. Babić, Sava: Razabrati u pletivu. Eseji o prevodilačkom činu. Novi Sad, 1986. 4. Babić, Sava: Teorija i poetika prevođenja, Bg., 1981. 5. Bekić, Tomislav: Anica Savić-Rebac kao posrednik između srpske i nemačke kulture, Vršac, 2004. 6. Čudić, Marko: Danilo Kiš i moderna mađarska poezija, Plato, Bg., 2007. 7. Gordić-Petković, Vladislava: Metafore u srpskim prevodima Hamleta, (Original title)
    Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
    Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
    2 1
    Methods of teaching : monological and dialogical method, discussion, and interactive method
    Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
    Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
    Activites during lectures 10 Test paper
    Practical lessons Oral examination 60
    Projects
    Colloquia 10
    Seminars 20
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