In Response to Robert Esposito’s “Eco — Modern/Archaic ~ Foreign/Domestic” (https://sites.rutgers.edu/italian-translation/eco-modern-archaic-foreign-domestic/) The last two paragraphs’ example of the translation of the word “weird” is quite interesting. Like you, I also … Read More
Linguist Roman Jakobson delineated three families of what he called translation: intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic. The second, interlingual, is what comes to mind when a layman is asked what translation … Read More
“The difference between modernizing the text and keeping it archaic is not the same as the one between foreignizing or domesticating it.” — Umberto Eco, 2001 If one were to … Read More
He wakes up disoriented next to his wife, upset from a dream. He was also next to his in the dream. Still disoriented, upset. They were driving in the country … Read More
Dante’s The Divine Comedy is one of Italian Literature’s most frequently translated texts, it has literally been being translated for over hundreds of years. Taking a look at two translations … Read More