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Russian Formalism, Czech Structuralism and Their Influence OnContemporary Translation Theory
Cámara Outes, Cristian ; Králová, Jana (advisor) ; Cuenca Drouhard, Miguel Jose (referee) ; Martino Alba, Pilar (referee)
This dissertation studies the theoretical and aesthetic conceptions of Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism, and the way in which these were applied to the specific field of translation studies. In the first case, the functions of translation are examined in the historical-literary studies published by Víktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynyanov and Boris Eikhenbaum between the years 1914 and 1929. In the second case, a distinction is made between the first period of Czech structuralism, between 1928 and 1948, dominated by the personality of Jan Mukařovský, and the second period of Czech structuralism, characterized by the contribution of Jiří Levý. In our analysis, we observe that both Russian formalism and Czech structuralism, throughout their theoretical evolution, although in different ways, maintain certain common theoretical constants: systematic, dialectical and dynamic understanding of literary systems; concern for the cultural dimension of translation; profound consideration of the historicity of translational phenomena and a persistent discussion about the nature of the relationships between translation and writing. As a result, the contributions of Russian formalism and Czech structuralism are related to the theoretical trends that characterize the discipline today. From this contrast, the...
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Reception of Czech literature in Spain considering the mediating role of German
Vavroušová, Petra ; Králová, Jana (advisor) ; Prokop, Josef (referee) ; Martino Alba, Pilar (referee)
The objective of the present doctoral thesis is to describe the reception of Czech literature in Spain between 1900 and 2015 with a special emphasis on German as a mediating language for translation between Czech and Spanish, placing Czech research of this phenomenon into a broad international context of investigating the role of languages and cultures in multilingual communities. The thesis further explores issues partially covered by previous research (Uličný 2005, Špirk 2011, 2014, Cuenca 2013). The theoretical part first provides a short historical context of both countries, commenting on their bilateral relations during the 20th century, analysing the publishing sector and describing the official censorship. It then provides a detailed investigation of indirect translations and introduces diverse methods in which they can be explored, highlighting the importance of paratextual material, that is paratexts (Genette 1982, 1987) and metatexts (Popovič 1975, 1983), and the influence of censorship and dominant ideology (Abellán 1980, 1982, 1987; Neuschäfer 1994). Methodologically, the present work relies on Czech and Slovak translation studies (Levý, Popovič) and the Spanish TRACE project (Rabadán, Merino). The empirical part uses the methodological tools of critical discourse analysis, author's...
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