A symposium to mark Spain's Presidency of the European Union
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Prof. Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale di Pisa)
Of Poetry, Poets and the Magic of Mirrors in the Renaissance
Thursday 13 May 2010, 5 pm
Oxford, Taylor Institution, Main Hall
All Welcome
A Conference at The Taylor Institution and Exeter College, Oxford
Thinkers ranging from Voltaire to Nabokov have dismissed the translation of poetry as an impossibility. Pirandello famously made similar protestations regarding drama. Jokes are routinely shrugged off as untranslatable. Yet translators, in theory and in practice, regularly contravene these claims, and the XIV Forum for Iberian Studies will likewise take these up as a gauntlet flung down. The Forum will explore ways in which translators overcome, acknowledge, or compensate for the presumed ‘impossibilities’ they encounter in the context of Iberian languages and literatures. At the university where La Celestina, Guzmán de Alfarache, La Regenta, and the Novelas ejemplares were first translated into English, we will discuss old and new challenges in concrete, practical terms.
The Forum will be attended by over 150 scholars and practitioners from 18 countries, who represent...
'Da bin ich noch, mein Land geht in den Westen...'
The Sub-faculty of German is delighted to announce that the distinguished German writer, Volker Braun, will be reading in German from his work:
on Tuesday 2 February (Week 3, Hilary Term)
in the McGregor Matthews Room, New College
at 4.30pm
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Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please contact karen.leeder@new.ox.ac.uk to reserve a place.
This will be followed by:
(OGS, November 2009) in the Undercroft, New College, circa 6pm
11 July - 4 November 2009 (closed Saturday 29 August to Tuesday 8 September)
For details of a presentation of some of the Taylor Institution Library holdings illustrating the history of German book production in Strasbourg from the humanist period onwards, see:
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/german/strasbourghob/
Click on the link at the bottom of the page for the accompanying booklet (46 pages) or go to:
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/german/strasbourghob/strasbourg_booklet.pdf
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