LINGUA E TRADUZIONE ANGLOAMERICANA 2

This course aims at consolidating the acquisition of structures and skills at the B2/C1 level of CEFRL. It is also meant to provide the students with effective tools for linguistic and cultural analysis and an awareness of the US cultural context. Attention will also be focused on translation theory and practice through some important works of US literature.

Cultural and literary translation seminar

The course will cover a detailed history of American English as well as some tenets of translation history and theory. Classes will be structured as a translation lab in which various kinds of texts (poems, novels, articles, essays, movies, song lyrics) will be analyzed, discussed and translated.

Grammar

Mann, Malcolm e Steve Taylore-Knowles, Destination B2, Macmillan, 2006.

Translation Theory and Language History

Bassnett, Susan, Translation Studies (3rd Edition), Routledge, 2002.

Bailey, Richard, Speaking American: A History of English in the United States, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Texts (any edition)

Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise

Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, City of Glass: The Graphic Novel

Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Flannery O’ Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Exam

Students should pick one of the texts from the list, read it and use it to perform autonomous translation exercises. Students will then select a section from the chosen text (500 words minimum) for a translation to be submitted NO LESS THAN A WEEK BEFORE the oral exam.

N.B. Students that need only 6 CFU don't need to hand in the written translation

The oral exam will be a discussion on the translation strategies adopted, difficulties encountered, as well as the theoretical and historical background of translation and American English discussed in class