Learning objectives
Advanced study of lexicographical, morphological and syntactic factors in order to achieve the best possible interpretational results.
Prerequisites
A pass in the exam Language and translation – Russian language I, in the second degree course.
Course unit content
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The translation of Russian literature <br />
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The course will be subdivided into two units. The first is designed to provide theoretical knowledge of the Russian lexicographical system and the respective lexicographical tools, and to train students in their use. The section regarding lexicographical training will be considered with regard to practical applications in contemporary Russian, in order to develop students’ lexicographical skills. This will be followed by a practical, applied section, which will include a lexicographical part in which monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, along with other tools used by translators, will be examined. <br />
The second unit will train students in concepts regarding a methodological approach to the translation of literary texts from Russian. As well as the linguistic analysis of the texts, this will include the preparation of trial translations of these texts, in cooperation with the professor. <br />
Bibliography
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BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY•• <br />
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Course notes (available in summary form at the course web page on the website http://corsi.unipr.it) <br />
A. BONOLA (ed.), Appunti di lessicologia e lessicografia russa, Milan 2005, available in updated electronic format at the course web page on the website http://corsi.unipr.it <br />
B. OSIMO, Manuale del traduttore. Guida pratica con glossario, Hoepli, Milan 1998 <br />
Texts used for translation activities during the lessons (published progressively on the course web page) <br />
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OPTIONAL TEXTS FOR FURTHER STUDY <br />
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The magazine “Testo a fronte” and its attached booklets <br />
M.S. AL’TMAN, Dostoevskij po vecham imen, Saratov 1975 (contains interesting notes on wordplay in Dostoevsky) <br />
F. APEL, Il manuale del traduttore letterario, ed. E. Mattioli and G. Rovagnati, Guerini, Milan 1993 <br />
--, Il movimento del linguaggio: una ricerca sul problema del tradurre, ed. E. Mattioli and R. Novello. - Marcos y Marcos, Milan, 1997. <br />
JU. D. APRESJAN, Integral’noe opisanie jazyka i sistemnaja leksikografija, “Jazyki russkoj kul’tury”, Moskva 1995 <br />
E. ARCAINI, Analisi linguistica e traduzione, Bologna 1986 <br />
W. BENJAMIN, Il compito del traduttore, in Angelus Novus. Saggi e frammenti, Italian translation R. Solmi, Einaudi, Turin 1976, pp. 37-50 <br />
Ju. A. FEDOSJUK, Čto ne ponjatno u klassikov, ili Enciklopedija russkogo byta XIX veka, Flinta: Nauka, Moskva 1998 <br />
F. GIUSTI FICI, Relazioni anaforiche tra lingue con e senza articolo, in J. KRESALKOVA, Mondo slavo e cultura italiana, Il Veltro Editrice, Rome 1983, pp.153-161 <br />
J.W. GOETHE, Note e dissertazioni al Divano occidentale-orientale in Il divano occidentale-orientale, Italian translation by L. Koch, I. Porena and F. Borio, Rizzoli, Milan 1990, pp. 703-706 <br />
E.V. PADUČEVA, Semantika narrativa, in Semantičeskie issledovanija, Škola “Jazyki russkoj kul’tury”, Moskva 1996, pp. 195-405 (there is an extensive bibliography on free indirect speech) <br />
P. PIERINI, L’atto del tradurre. Aspetti teorici e pratici della traduzione, Bulzoni editore, Rome 1999 <br />
V.N. VOLOŠINOV, Marxismo e filosofia del linguaggio, Priboj, Leningrad 1929, now also published by Labirint, Moskva 1993; Italian translation in A. PONZIO et al. (ed.), Bachtin e le sue maschere, Dedalo, Bari 1995 <br />
