MA Seminar 340-AT2-1SEM3

Basic goals of the seminar
1. to get students acquainted with different approaches to basic issues in translation studies in the context of travel writing (and generally of literary texts
2. getting students acquainted with the most pertinent problems connected with translations (culture bound elements, proper names, idioms, dialects) in the context of travel writing texts

The goal of this seminar is to prepare students to write and help them to write an M.A. dissertation which will analyse Anglophone travel writing or will use translation studies methods to analyze translations of travel writing texts from English to Polish (or, in some cases, from Polish to English)

The goal of this seminar is to prepare students to write and help them to write an M.A. dissertation which will analyse Anglophone travel writing or will use translation studies methods to analyze translations of travel writing texts from English to Polish (or, in some cases, from Polish to English)

Basic secondary sources:
Fawcett P. 1997. Translation and Language. Linguistic Theories Explained. Manchester: St Jerome
Hejwowski K. 2004. Translation: A Cognitive-Communicative Approach. Olecko: Wszechnica Mazurska
Hejwowski K. 2015: Iluzja przekładu: Przekładoznawstwo w ujęciu konstruktywnym. Katowice: Śląsk
Hermans Th. 1999. Translation in Systems. Descriptive and Systemic Approaches Explained. Manchester: St Jerome
Jarniewicz J. 2012. Gościnność słowa: Szkice o przekładzie literackim. Kraków: Znak.
Kujawska-Lis. E. 2011. Marlow pod polską banderą: Tetrologia Josepha Conrada w przekładach z lat 1904-2004. Olszytn: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego.
Nord Nord Ch. 1997. Translating as a Purposeful Activity. Functionalist Approaches Explained. Manchester: St Jerome
Venuti L. (red.) 2000. The Translation Studies Reader. London/New York: Routledge

Additional sources:
Baker M., Saldanha G. (red.) 2008. Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London, New York: Routledge
Hatim B., Munday J. 2005. Translation: An Advanced Resource Book. London-New York: Routledge
Munday J. 2009. The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies. New York: Routledge
Newmark P. 1988. A Textbook of Translation. New York: Prentice Hall
Wojtasiewicz O. 1957. Wstęp do teorii tłumaczenia. Wrocław/Warszawa: Ossolineum

1. Behdad, Ali – Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution,

2. Białas, Zbigniew – The Body Wall, Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices,

3. Blanton, Casey – Travel Writing: The Self and the World,

4. Cocker, Mark – Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing,

5. Fussell, Paul – Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

6. Kowalewski, Michael (ed.) – Temperamental Journeys: Essays on the Modern Literature of Travel,

7. Lawrence, Karen – Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition,

8. Moroz Grzegorz – Travellers, Novelists and Gentlemen: Constructing Male Narrative Personae in British Travel Books,

9. Rutkowska, Małgorzata - In Search of America – The Image of the United States in Travel Writing of the 1980s and 1990s,

10. Said, Edward – Orientalism,

11. Smith, Sidonie – Moving Lives; 20-th Century Women’s Travel Writing,

12. Spurr, David – The Rhetoric of Empire; Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing and Imperial Administration,

13. Thompson Carl- Travel Writing,

14. Youngs, Tim , The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing,

1. Behdad, Ali – Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution,

2. Białas, Zbigniew – The Body Wall, Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices,

3. Blanton, Casey – Travel Writing: The Self and the World,

4. Cocker, Mark – Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing,

5. Fussell, Paul – Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

6. Kowalewski, Michael (ed.) – Temperamental Journeys: Essays on the Modern Literature of Travel,

7. Lawrence, Karen – Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition,

8. Moroz Grzegorz – Travellers, Novelists and Gentlemen: Constructing Male Narrative Personae in British Travel Books,

9. Rutkowska, Małgorzata - In Search of America – The Image of the United States in Travel Writing of the 1980s and 1990s,

10. Said, Edward – Orientalism,

11. Smith, Sidonie – Moving Lives; 20-th Century Women’s Travel Writing,

12. Spurr, David – The Rhetoric of Empire; Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing and Imperial Administration,

13. Thompson Carl- Travel Writing,

14. Youngs, Tim , The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing,