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Post Graduate Diploma in Translation Studies UNIT 422-2: LITERARY TERMS AND CONCEPTS: IMAGE, WORK, TEXT AND CONTEXT 422.2.0: AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND STRUCTURE In this unit under the broad rubric of Literary Terms and Concepts, more specifically, Image, Work, Text and Context, we shall first make a historical outline of our changing attitude towards literature. Then we shall go on to examine the theoretical and practical implications of such changes for the craft of translation. Questions that are likely to be germane to the present enquiry would include the following: 1. What is the relationship between the Image and Work, the Text and the Context? 2. Does the literary term or concept ever remain a static entity or is it dynamic? 3. How are such terms constructed? What role is played by social, political and cultural factors in their formations? 4. If the meaning of such terms is subject to change, then how does the translator find equivalents (if that be the goal) that he/she encounters in the source language? This unit will have the following structure: 422.2.1. Introduction 422.2.2. The Text and the Context: New Criticism and After 422.2.2.1. Imitation as a way of creation 422.2.2.2. Autonomy of the work of Art 422.2.2.3. Depersonalized art 422.2.2.4. The dividing boundary 422.2.2.5. The Text and the Context 422.2.2.6. Author-centeredness 422.2.3. Shift in Perspective: Author, Meaning and Text 422.2.3.1. Saussure and Derrida 422.2.3.2. Rolland Barthes 422.2.3.3. Julia Kristeva and Intertextuality 422.2.3.4. Stanley Fish 422.2.4. Changing View of Translation 422.2.4.1. An identical debate 422.2.4.2. On the question of Fidelity 422.2.4.3. Implications of Post-Structuralism 422.2.5. Literary Terms and Concepts 422.2.6. Summary 422.2.7. References 422.2.8. Further Readings Previous   Next     Top ----Go to Unit---- Unit 422-1 Unit 422-2 Unit 422-3 Unit 422-4 Unit 422-5 Unit 422-6 Unit 422-7 Unit 422-8 Unit 422-9 Unit 422-10 Unit 422-11 Unit 422-12 Unit 422-13 Unit 422-14 Unit 422-15 ----Questions of the Unit---- Questions of the Unit 422-1 Questions of the Unit 422-2 Questions of the Unit 422-3 Questions of the Unit 422-4 Questions of the Unit 422-5 Questions of the Unit 422-6 Questions of the Unit 422-7 Questions of the Unit 422-8 Questions of the Unit 422-9 Questions of the Unit 422-10 Questions of the Unit 422-11 Questions of the Unit 422-12 Questions of the Unit 422-13 Questions of the Unit 422-14 Questions of the Unit 422-15