Translators and Translations C: Greek-Danish

by Holmboe, Henrik; Isager, Signe

• ISBN13: 9788779340039
• ISBN10: 8779340032
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

The difficulties of a translation vary with the character of the text, the nature of the languages involved and the intended audience. Working in two languages that boast long recorded histories yet lack the status of 'passport' tongues, the contributors to this volume wrestle with the full range of problems encountered by translators everywhere. The sixteen pieces in the book draw on experience in diverse fields but may be roughly divided into four sections. The first focuses on translations from ancient Greek to Danish, with essays that describe specific textual challenges - the Iliad, the New Testament, the Greek tragedies translated for the stage - and take up the question of the reception of classical civilisation in Denmark. The second group covers renderings of modern literature in both directions, featuring general reflections as well as a contribution on translating Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments and a study of Achilleus Paraschos and Danish folk songs. The next section ventures into less literary territory with several appraisals of how Danish and Greek fare in the multilingual legal and administrative environment of EU institutions. The final articles leave books behind altogether to concentrate on subtitling of film in theory and in practice.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
The Forging of a New Danish Iliad	p. 9
Translating Greek Tragedy. The Text on the Page, The Drama on the Stage	p. 15
How Ancient Greek Literature Reached Danish Readers	p. 25
Translating the Bible	p. 35
Translations and Classical Civilization in the Danish Gymnasium	p. 45
European Literature in Translation: Research at the Center for the Greek Language	p. 53
Modern Greek Literature in Danish Translation	p. 59
Note on Bibliography	p. 63
On Translating S. Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments into Greek	p. 65
Achilleus Paraschos and Two Danish Folk Songs	p. 73
Translating into Greek from Danish 19th Century Texts	p. 115
How Danish and Greek Legal Languages Meet in the Multilingual Environment of the European Community	p. 119
Eurospeak: Neologisms and Other Translatory Phenomena in Danish and Greek. The European Parliament Minutes and Reports Corpus	p. 129
Translation from Modern Greek into Danish at the EU institutions	p. 143
Texts, Translation and Subtitling - in Theory, and in Denmark	p. 149
Subtitling in Greece. The Fear of the Goalie at the Penalty Kick	p. 193
Short Description of the CD-ROM "Filoglossia"	p. 201
List of Contributors	p. 203
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