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"I recommend its publication": A Portrait of Czech Fiction in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s.
Kultová, Petra ; Špirk, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Mračková Vavroušová, Petra (referee)
This thesis deals with the translations of Czech prose published in the 1970s and 1980s by Volk und Welt, the second largest publishing house in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Using the publisher's and other paratexts, the empirical research aims to reconstruct the image of Czech literature that Volk und Welt helped to create. The issue under scrutiny draws methodological as well as theoretical inspiration from Anton Popovič, the Slovak translation scholar who inter alia postulated a theory of metatexts, André Lefevere and the Manipulation School, as well as Gérard Genette, who came up with a theory of paratexts. The publishing activities of Volk und Welt are painted against a broad political and cultural background. By analysing the publisher's reviews, required for the books to be approved for circulation in the GDR, as well as by dissecting other paratexts, the author uncovers strategies whereby the selected books of Czech literature found their way both to the reviewers and the general public.
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Annotated translation: Grimmische Märchenfiguren und Archetypen in der Werbung (In: Hessissche Blätter für Volk- und Kulturforschung. vol. 44/45, Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 2009. ISSN 0175-3479.)
Kultová, Petra ; Svoboda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Veselá, Gabriela (referee)
This bachelor thesis consists of a translation of a German text into Czech and an expert commentary on the translation. The translated text is a popular research paper entitled "Grimmsche Märchenfiguren und Archetypen in der Werbung". The expert commentary deals with four areas: translation analysis, translation methods, typology of translation problems and shifts of expression in translation. The aim of the commentary is to acquaint readers with translation procedures and methods, to reflect problematic passages in the text and to find a feasible translation solution drawing on theoretical knowledge. Key words: translation, translation analysis, faithful translation, translation method, translation shift
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