As most of you know, one of the subjects I've been studying for my "content test" is Translation Theories. But as I read all those theories, I'm always thinking about fanfiction too. So ( Read more... )

A translator can take two different attitudes when translating a text. As Lawrence Venuti says in The Scandals of Translation, translation necessarily domesticates its source text. The degree to which a translator domesticates a literary work in order to make it legible within the dominant code of the target language is of critical importance. ( Read more... )

So I was reading articles on Vilém Flusser, a philosopher who lived many years in Brazil. Flusser used a process I use too, in a way. He could speak German, Portuguese, English and French, and he used to translate and retranslate his texts in order to have a more detached view of his writing and ideas ( Read more... )

OMG. sistermagpie has just made me understand why I can't understand JKR's moral conceptions, her reasoning concerning the prophecy and why the choices that seem to be so important to Dumbledore are not really choices the way I understand them. I am an Agnostic now, but I was raised as a Catholic, as most Brazilians are. I'm not able to understand JKR's ( Read more... )

First, I must declare that I don't believe in universal and eternal criteria of 'good' and 'bad' in Literature.I don't believe in 'stable' texts, 'stable' laws, and the possibility of imposing them worldwide and for all time. In fact, I'm against all forms of linguistic essentialism. And I don't believe in prescriptive criticism. Every evaluation ( Read more... )