translation studies

In the “Preface by the Translator” that Margaret Fuller penned for her translation of Goethe’s Tasso, she states: “There are difficulties attending the translation of German works into English which might baffle one much more skillful in the use of the latter than myself. A great variety of compound words enable the German writer to give a degree of precision and delicacy of shading to his expressions nearly impracticable with the terse, the dignified, but by no means flexible English idiom” (Art, Literature and the Drama, p. 355).

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts to the Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies. JELCS is an open access journal and it aims to promote high quality research papers that contribute genuine knowledge and research in the fields of English Literature and Cultural Studies.  This peer reviewed journal is published quarterly. All submitted articles should be original and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. JELCS reviews papers within approximately two weeks of submission. It aims to provide a forum for high quality research manuscripts related to English Literature and Cultural Studies.

SEDERI Yearbook

Call for Papers

SEDERI Yearbook welcomes articles, notes and reviews for its next issue.

SEDERI, Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, is an annual publication devoted to current criticism and scholarship on English Renaissance Studies. It is peer-reviewed by external referees, following a double-blind policy.

Areas of interest

Early Modern English Literature

Early Modern English History and Culture

Early Modern English Language

Extended deadline for submissions: January 31, 2019

Email your proposal to: ascf@uco.edu

• Conference date: April 5, 2019
• Venue: College of Business Building, University of Central Oklahoma

                       100 N University Dr.

                       Edmond, OK 73034

• Contact email: ascf@uco.edu

 Registration includes a luncheon featuring authentic Asian foods. 

Call for Papers: “Borders and Cross-Cultural Encounters”

March 1-2, 2019

DEADLINE EXTENDED: December 31, 2018

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Chris Lippard, University of Utah

The Southwest English Symposium (SWES) is a regional humanities conference held annually at Arizona State University. The conference provides graduate and advanced undergraduate students with an opportunity to present original scholarship before an interdisciplinary audience. We encourage proposals from a diverse range of disciplines within the humanities and other disciplines.

Tales, fables, fragments, sketches, and other short literary forms have comprised the fabric of scary stories told and re-told, adapted, transformed, appropriated and re-appropriated. Their brevity is, and was often, central to their wider dissemination, and for the publication and democratisation of voices that might have otherwise remained unheard; allowing them to be accessed by those who might have otherwise been excluded. Much of their debt is, undoubtedly owed to the oral yarn, the fireside tale, the urban legend, and many have, and remain, connected to a diverse and rich visual culture.

Crossing Borders, Boundaries, and Cultures: Studies in Transnational Comics

Date:  March 18–19, 2019

JoSTrans 35 (January 2021)

Special issue 'Translation and Plurisemiotic Practices'

Guest editors: Francis Mus (Université de Liège – CIRTI) and Sarah Neelsen (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – CEREG)

It is a critical commonplace that Shakespeare in many ways relied on and produced various forms of translations – translations of foreign words, translations of literary texts, translations from one medium into another, to name but a few. Over time, Shakespeare’s works themselves have become some of the most widely translated texts in world literature. As of today, his works have been translated into more than 100 languages. Moreover, his plays and poems have travelled across time and space, and they have been re-translated time and again in order to adapt them for contemporary audiences. More often than not, such translations also raise questions about the original works and their socio-cultural as well as literary contexts.

Joyce’s Feast of Languages

The XII James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome

Conference Dates: January 31-February 1, 2019
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 25, 2018

Keynote speakers: Richard Brown, Enrico Terrinoni, Chrissie Van Mierlo

The James Joyce Italian Foundation invites proposals for the Twelfth Annual Conference in Rome. It will be hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the Università Roma Tre, to celebrate Joyce’s 137th birthday.

Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture

https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/memoires/

Volume 11, Number 1, Fall 2019

“France and the United States in the Nineteenth Century: Publishing, Literature and Politics”

Guest-edited by Michaël Roy, Université Paris Nanterre

The ever-growing distribution of Bollywood films worldwide, and in Europe, brings into focus the translational practices of dubbing and subtitling as crucial elements that affect the reception of this cinema abroad, as well as the role they play as cultural filters of one culture to another. In the past few years, the use of Indian accents in Bollywood cinema have caused dissent on the way specific linguistic cultures have been depicted and translated, problematising the use of multilingualism and its nuances in India. Thus, is cinema a universal language?

Ancient Greece and Rome have had a profound influence on subsequent literature. While our analyses of Classical literature, philosophy, and art often focus on the characters and stories they depict, these works often served as a means to examine the aesthetic process itself. One of the earliest surviving Greek texts, Homer’s Iliad, goes so far as to depict its protagonist Achilles singing of ancient heroes and strumming his lyre as a means of determining the effect of being remembered in epic.