Common Rue: Anglický překlad povídek z výboru Jana ČepaZeměžluč

Baugh, Robert Michael

(English) The doctoral dissertation is a thesis-by-practice, offering an English translation of nine short stories from Jan Čep's 1931 Czech anthology Zeměžluč - itself comprised of the collections Zeměžluč (1931), Vigilie (1928), and Dvojí domov (1926) - and a commentary. The commentary details the strategies utilized to translate the stories into English, while also examining literary themes of Zeměžluč. An introduction explains the reason for translating Zeměžluč into English, as well as the reasoning behind the structure and methodology of the dissertation. Part One provides a brief biography of Jan Čep for a non-Czech audience. Part Two of the dissertation presents the English translation of nine stories: "Domek," "Bouře," "Dvojí domov," "Kozlovice," "Peněženka," "Zbloudilý," "Hoře z lásky," "Můra," and "Cesta na jitřní." Part Three of the dissertation offers the commentary, which contains four chapters. Its first chapter investigates the metaphysical geography of Zeměžluč; the second chapter tracks the rapidly shifting verbal tenses in Čep's stories and explains why they have been altered in the English translation. The third chapter sets out the problems Czech names and realia pose for translating stories from Zeměžluč into English. The fourth chapter examines Walter Benjamin's concept of...

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