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| Post Graduate Diploma in Translation Studies |
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| UNIT 422-10: SOCIAL CONTEXT OF LITERARY TRANSLATION
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 Points to Remember  |
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1. Describe the importance of the social context in literary translation.
2. What do you understand by the concept of time and place in literary translation?
3. What are the various angle from which we can see the social context in the
literary translation?
4. In what way are the author and translator products of their respective world?
5. What role do the culture and tradition play in the making of author's mind?
6. What is the difference between the translation of the contemporary literary works and the works that belongs to the past?
7. How is the reader's angle important in the translation?
8. What distinguishes the translation of the drama from the translation of
other genres?
9. How the social context is relevant from the point of view of linguistic sensibility?
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| 422.10.10 : SUMMARY |
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| In this unit you have studied the relevance of social context in translation. Now you can tell how the society and literary translation are related to each other. This relationship is in terms of time and space, which has to be seen from the point of view of the trio of the author, translator and the reader. You have understood what role do the contemporaneity, tradition and culture play. You may also come to know where the translation of drama differs from the translation of other genres of literature. By now you must be able to tell about the socio-linguistic aspect of translation also. |
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422.10.11 : REFERENCES
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Govil, O.P. tr. (1986). "Ansoo" by Jai Shankar Prasad, translated
in English. Aligarh: Shakun Publications.
Prasad, Jai Shankar. (1985). "Ansoo", in "Prasad Rachnawali" Vol.
1. Allahabad: Lok Bharati Prakashan.
Raghava, Rangeya, tr. (1981). "Merchant of Venice" by Shake-
speare, translated in Hindi. Delhi : Rajpal & Sons.
Raghava, Rangeya, tr. (1982). "Hamlet" by Shakespeare, translated
in Hindi. Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
Rai, Amrit, tr. (1965). Hamlet by Shakespeare, translated into
Hindi. Allahabad: Sarjana Prakashan.
Ratan, Jai & P. Lal, tr. (1986). Godan" by Premchand. Bombay:
Jaico Publishing House.
Sahay, Raghuvir, tr. (1980s). "Varnam Van" (shakespeare's Mac-
beth) translated in Hindi.
Wright, Gillian, tr. (1992). "Raag Darbari" by Shri Lal Shukla.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
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| 422.10.12 : FURTHER READINGS |
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Bassnett-McGuire, Susan. (1980). Translation Studies. London:
Methuen.
Newmark, Peter. (1981). Approaches to Translation. Oxford: Perga-
mon Press.
Paliwal, Rita Rani. (1991). Anuvad Kii Saamaajik Bhuumikaa.
Delhi: Sachin Prakashan.
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DR. RITA RANI PALIWAL
Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
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