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Translations of Czech Literature into English
Valvoda, Rostislav ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
This MA thesis focuses on translation of Czech literature into English offering a historical account of its development (mainly from a quantitative perspective). To achieve this, an up-to-date bibliography of Czech literary translation into English has been compiled drawing upon existing research in the field. Covering Czech literary translation into English from its modern beginnings up to 2010, the bibliography contains about 2,500 records of works of Czech authors published either as separate books or in anthologies. Apart from the Excel version of bibliography enclosed to this thesis, the bibliography is also available as a web application enabling easy and ongoing updating in the future. Data collection was the main method of this part of the thesis. In addition, the thesis discusses in detail its methods and methodological issues helping better understand the nature of data and process of their collection. This is particularly useful for translation history researchers and for anyone interested in mapping literary translation into another language. The thesis also gives a basic outline of Czech literary translation into English summarizing major trends both in history and the present day, highlighting 15 most published Czech authors and discussing in more detail the renderings of their works...
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Salman Rushdie in british literary tradition and in translations by P. Dominik
Neradová, Martina ; Josek, Jiří (advisor) ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (referee)
fhis ~vL A. thesis aims to place Salman Rushdic in the contcxt of hoth British and world ji!crary traditiOlL ddines him as a postmodern authar. and sUlllmarizťs thc critiquc hc t:1CCS \\ ithin post-colonial discourse. Thc thesis describes individlk'll Ceatures af Rushdic's 'vvorks, including elemcnts of magic realism, intcrtcxtuality, use of diglossia und multi-]ayered narrtltivc, charactcrizes n:ception 01' his novels and thcir importance, '[ hc seC(lnd part uf l11c thesis is dedicatcd to thc translation of Rushdic's books by Pavel Dominik, It gives u briel oveľ\'icw ol' thc translator and nf the hooks translated by him, dcals \vith thc role o[ ide(\log~' in translation, shows the way diglossia has becn used in Czech literatureo ťocuscs Dn thc difliculty rcsulting from "translating cultures", and describes special issues linked tu translations 01' Rushdic's novels as they are in a way "translations of translatiol1s". The lmnslation methods and the language of Pavel Dominik are cxp1ail1ed with tbc help nf exmnples from his translations, inc1uding translation OfpW1S and proper nouns with semantic mc'Joing.
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Commented Translation: Sheldon Cashdan: The Witch Must Die (1999)
Bauerová, Magdaléna ; Kalivodová, Eva (advisor) ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (referee)
This bachelor thesis is divided into two major parts. The first part contains partial translation of Sheldon Cashdan's book The Witch Must Die published in 1999 The book analyses fairy tales from psychological point of view. The translation is followed by a commentary that provides an analysis of the source text based on the model introduced by Christiane Nord. The commentary also includes a description of chosen translation method and a summary of the major translation problems. Finally it covers translation shifts that occured during the translation process. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Parker, Tony. The Violence Of Our Lives: Interviews with Life-Sentence Prisoners in America. London: HarperCollins, 1996. 256 p. ISBN 0-00-638238-X.
Janina, Margarita ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Mraček, David (referee)
The bachelor thesis consists of two parts. The first part is a translation of selected chapters from the book written by Tony Parker The Violence of Our Lives: Interviews with Life- Sentence Prisoners in America, which was published in London in 1996 by HarperCollins Publishers. The second part of this thesis is a commentary on the translation based on Christiane Nord's model of translation analysis. The commentary includes a translation analysis; it focuses according to relevance on extratextual and intratextual factors and on various translation problems that occurred in the process. The commentary describes strategies for dealing with the problems as well as the typology of translation shifts that occurs in the target text. It concludes that the text is expressive and embedded in the source culture.
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Cronin, Michael: Translation and identity. Routledge. London;New York (NY). 2006: A Translation and Commentary
Baštová, Kateřina ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Jettmarová, Zuzana (referee)
This bachelor thesis comprises a translation of a part of a book called Translation and Identity by Michael Cronin, published in 2006 and a commentary on the translation. The commentary includes translation analysis of the original text, examples of translation problems with solutions and typology of translation shifts. The analysis was based on the model of Ch. Nord and the translation method was inspired by translation theory of J. Levý and partly also by the theory of P. Newmark. The translation shifts were based on the theory of A. Popovič. The translated text inquires into the interconnection of the modern and constantly changing society. It looks at the understanding of the concept of cosmopolitanism throughout the history from the point of view of several cosmopolitan theories and it studies the influence the understanding has on people's behaviour. It puts into context concepts of cosmopolitanism, identity and translation and it highlights the role of translation as an irreplaceable "bridge" which mediates relationship of the global world and influences how we see individuals and groups whether it is on the level of ethnic, national or an international society. In relation to this it explores the place of an individual and a group in the complex global society and the differences in...
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Jungmann's translation of Paradise Lost
Janů, Karel ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Rubáš, Stanislav (referee)
This thesis examines Josef Jungmann's translation of Milton's Paradise Lost. Josef Jungmann was one of the leading figures of the Czech National Revival and translated Milton's poem between the years 1800 and 1804. The thesis thoroughly describes the Czech cultural situation at the beginning of the 19th century, covers Jungmann's theoretical model of translation and presents Jungmann's motives for translation of Milton's epic poem. The paper also describes the aims Jungmann had with his translation and whether he has achieved them. Also described is the reception Jungmann's translation received after it was published and its significance for the Czech literature. Primarily, this thesis focuses on detailed translation analysis of how Jungmann's translation compares prosodically, lexically and stylistically to the original and the first Polish translation. It also explores assumptions of some scholars who claimed that Jungmann's translation was indirect. Key words: Josef Jungmann, John Milton, Czech National Revival, indirect translation, neologism
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Commented translation: Women Artists Then and Now: Painting, Sculpture and the Image of the Self (In: Linda Nochlin: Global Feminism: New Directions in Contemporary Art. Merrell Publishers, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1858943909, pp. 47-64).
Frantíková, Iva ; Josek, Jiří (advisor) ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (referee)
This thesis consists of a transaltion of a chapter written by the American feminist art historian Linda Nochlin called Women Artists Then and Now: Painting, Sculpture and the Image of the Self from Global Feminism: New Directions in Contemporary Art and a commentary on various aspects of the process. The concept of translation was created upon the basis of an extratextual and intratextual analysis, and the following principles for work with the text were layed down: The fact, that the percipient of the original and the translation text differ in their cultural backgrounds, is considered in the translation, and names which are less known in Europe are accompanied with intratextual explanatory notes. The publicistic genre disposes of different means in the source and the target languague. The high level of expresivity and subjectivity of the originial text is substituded by more formal means in Czech which, nonetheless, provide the same function and therefore represent functional substitution. These steps lead to preservation of the thematic content and the effect of the translation on the percipient is the same as that of the original text on the original reader.
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An annotated translation of Muriel Spark's selected short stories with an introduction to the author, the style of the short stories and their translation complexities
Tichá, Kateřina ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Šťastná, Zuzana (referee)
The thesis consists of two parts. The first, practical part presents a translation of short stories The Portobello Road (1956), The Curtain Blown by the Breeze (1961) and The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life (2000) by the Scottish writer Muriel Spark. The texts represent various periods of Spark's writing career and offer a complex insight into her style and its various shades. The translation is succeeded by a study focusing on the life and work of Muriel Spark and mainly on an analysis of the key translation issues encountered in the process of translation. The key problems include the translation of Spark's specific literary language, the rendering of natural speech and the idiolects of the characters, the translation of names and other culture-specific facts. The theoretical part devoted to the translation analysis stresses the link between various translation theories and the work of a translator.
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