Home and Away

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Home and Away

• Hilla Karas
• Tel Aviv University
• CETRA 2005

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Translation of Literary Texts from Old to Modern
French

• Chronological Delimitation
• Linguistic characteristics
• Literary characteristics

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Particularity

• Definitions of translation
• The source text
• Retranslation
• National/Intercultural aspect

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Main Research Questions

• Transfer of Medieval Literature, or Linguistic
  and Literary Past
• Generalization about of Intralingual Translation
  and its Specificity (?)

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So far

• Focus on a specific linguistic/literary aspect
• The Philological Tradition
• Prescriptive Analysis
• Interdisciplinary

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Method

• Comparative analysis of translations for the same
  work
• 20th Century
• Aucassin et Nicolette
• The greater scale of rewritings
• Theoretical framework
• Primary Corpus Items
• Secondary Corpus Items

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Preliminary Findings

• Double Rhetoric
• Artistic/Literary vs. Scientific?
• The Bilingual Editions
• Roques/Sainte Palaye, vs.
• Dufournet, Mejean Thiolier, Walter
• One Trouble Maker

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Hypotheses

• Medieval French Literature as part of a
  (national? Ultra-national? Linguistic? Literary?)
  Canon.
• The specificity and non specificity of this kind
  of translation, as opposed to other intralingual
  translations
• Mysterious stability/non stability of ST and SL
  the scientific dominance

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Enlarging the Circle

• Other medieval texts
• Position and Genre
• Several Manuscripts
• Classical, relilgious texts