Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Mon... more Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Montréal, l'Université Laval et l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Pour communiquer avec les responsables d'Érudit:
This essay is a reading of two short texts, Henri Bosco's L'Enfant et la riviere and Jean... more This essay is a reading of two short texts, Henri Bosco's L'Enfant et la riviere and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio's Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer, illustrating the close link between them in terms of Gaston Bachelard's writing in Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter. I began to seek out intimate contact with things and people. This brings the searcher into contact with the unknown, with the mysterious. Henri Bosco, Interview with Jean-Pierre Cauvin I love the sea, the source of genuine beauty. It satisfies my desire for it teaches me the power of life. Where does its plenitude come from? It is the basis of the imaginary: sea of dreams, immense sea, like the sky, circle of the horizon which enfolds you like suffering. [...] All passions, all images are there. The sea is a memory. Closed sea, dark, opaque, linking all land masses. Impenetrable, independent sea. It is the surface over which we glide and it is from it that we are endlessly nou...
L.K. Penrod gives a close study of one of Quebec's leading publishing houses, le courte echel... more L.K. Penrod gives a close study of one of Quebec's leading publishing houses, le courte echelle, which, in less than ten years, has managed to carve out a huge international success. She examines its history, and defines the chief editor's rather bold and unorthodox policies, his emphasis on literary excellence and on the need to challenge cultural stereotypes. Focusing then on the works of la courte echelle's major authors, such as Ginette Anfousse, Louise Leblanc and Marie-Francine Gauthier; L. Penrod analyses how their characterization of female heroes, both young and adult, questions role models, thus showing how, in various degrees, feminist ideology and values transform the very perception of Quebecois language and culture.
TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies
Using the words of Hans Christian Andersen, "Where words fail, music speaks," and applying them t... more Using the words of Hans Christian Andersen, "Where words fail, music speaks," and applying them to our thinking about the concept of embodiment as it relates to translation, we open our minds to a wider conception of the ways in which translation affects contemporary ideas of what the field encompasses. Most of us who teach, study, or practice translation are through force of habit accustomed to think of the act of translation as primarily a linguistic and cultural transfer between text and text. In the applied translation courses, we usually teach from one language to another-French to English, Chinese to German, Spanish to Farsi-eternally pairing two, sometimes quite obstreperous, frenemies: words for words, sense for sense, across the no man's land we face. How to translate a word like patriot? How to handle an apparently simple idiomatic phrase? How to convey a culturally sensitive argument? As translators we love languages, spoken and written, and we love reading the printed word. Yet sometimes our text translations fail us, and it is at these times that art can step in to speak.
TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies
This article is a general exploration of translation issues involved in the translation and perfo... more This article is a general exploration of translation issues involved in the translation and performance of the art song, arguing that although critical interest in recent years has been growing, the problems involved in these hybrid translation projects involving both text and music present a number of conundrums: primacy of text or music, focus on performability, and age-old arguments about fidelity and/or foreignization vs domestication. Using information from theatre translation and input from singers themselves, the author argues that this particular area of translation studies will work best in the future with a collaborative approach that includes translators, musicologists, and performers working together in order to produce the most “singable” text as possible for the art song in performance.
This article focuses on a typical law and literature jurisprudence seminar and the use of literar... more This article focuses on a typical law and literature jurisprudence seminar and the use of literary texts in this type of class to foster the development of "ethical sentiments" in future legal practitioners. While the majority of jurisprudence courses within a standard law curriculum tend to use political theory, philosophical, or socio-cultural approaches to the fundamental questions considered in this type of course (what is justice? what is fairness? what does ethical conduct mean for a lawyer?), this course uses literary texts to foreground basic questions relating to ethics and professional responsibility in the practice of law. Whereas a Professional Responsibility or Professional Ethics course often deal with the precise rules and regulations of a specific jurisdiction"s ethical code, the law and literature jurisprudence seminar seeks to broaden the experience of law students through juxtaposing fictional narratives (novels, short stories, plays, poetry) with and ongoing ethical questions future lawyers will undoubtedly face throughout their careers.
In the world of children's literature, almost everyone (except perhaps the child reader) is an im... more In the world of children's literature, almost everyone (except perhaps the child reader) is an imposter or impersonator of sorts. Children's authors are obliged to return to a time in their past when they were…children. Or thought they were. Thus translators of children's books (or books for children, or books said to be for children but not really, or books for both children and adults who have never grown up, or books for childlike adults, or-the permutations are seemingly endless here) find themselves involved in an even more complex impersonation act. How does the translator find the space of that original text, where the author was, after all, an "original" impersonator and then proceed to successfully repopulate that same textual space in order to create a translated text world for a reader who is, at least sometimes, a "real" child?
Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Mon... more Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Montréal, l'Université Laval et l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Pour communiquer avec les responsables d'Érudit:
This essay is a reading of two short texts, Henri Bosco's L'Enfant et la riviere and Jean... more This essay is a reading of two short texts, Henri Bosco's L'Enfant et la riviere and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio's Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer, illustrating the close link between them in terms of Gaston Bachelard's writing in Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter. I began to seek out intimate contact with things and people. This brings the searcher into contact with the unknown, with the mysterious. Henri Bosco, Interview with Jean-Pierre Cauvin I love the sea, the source of genuine beauty. It satisfies my desire for it teaches me the power of life. Where does its plenitude come from? It is the basis of the imaginary: sea of dreams, immense sea, like the sky, circle of the horizon which enfolds you like suffering. [...] All passions, all images are there. The sea is a memory. Closed sea, dark, opaque, linking all land masses. Impenetrable, independent sea. It is the surface over which we glide and it is from it that we are endlessly nou...
L.K. Penrod gives a close study of one of Quebec's leading publishing houses, le courte echel... more L.K. Penrod gives a close study of one of Quebec's leading publishing houses, le courte echelle, which, in less than ten years, has managed to carve out a huge international success. She examines its history, and defines the chief editor's rather bold and unorthodox policies, his emphasis on literary excellence and on the need to challenge cultural stereotypes. Focusing then on the works of la courte echelle's major authors, such as Ginette Anfousse, Louise Leblanc and Marie-Francine Gauthier; L. Penrod analyses how their characterization of female heroes, both young and adult, questions role models, thus showing how, in various degrees, feminist ideology and values transform the very perception of Quebecois language and culture.
TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies
Using the words of Hans Christian Andersen, "Where words fail, music speaks," and applying them t... more Using the words of Hans Christian Andersen, "Where words fail, music speaks," and applying them to our thinking about the concept of embodiment as it relates to translation, we open our minds to a wider conception of the ways in which translation affects contemporary ideas of what the field encompasses. Most of us who teach, study, or practice translation are through force of habit accustomed to think of the act of translation as primarily a linguistic and cultural transfer between text and text. In the applied translation courses, we usually teach from one language to another-French to English, Chinese to German, Spanish to Farsi-eternally pairing two, sometimes quite obstreperous, frenemies: words for words, sense for sense, across the no man's land we face. How to translate a word like patriot? How to handle an apparently simple idiomatic phrase? How to convey a culturally sensitive argument? As translators we love languages, spoken and written, and we love reading the printed word. Yet sometimes our text translations fail us, and it is at these times that art can step in to speak.
TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies
This article is a general exploration of translation issues involved in the translation and perfo... more This article is a general exploration of translation issues involved in the translation and performance of the art song, arguing that although critical interest in recent years has been growing, the problems involved in these hybrid translation projects involving both text and music present a number of conundrums: primacy of text or music, focus on performability, and age-old arguments about fidelity and/or foreignization vs domestication. Using information from theatre translation and input from singers themselves, the author argues that this particular area of translation studies will work best in the future with a collaborative approach that includes translators, musicologists, and performers working together in order to produce the most “singable” text as possible for the art song in performance.
This article focuses on a typical law and literature jurisprudence seminar and the use of literar... more This article focuses on a typical law and literature jurisprudence seminar and the use of literary texts in this type of class to foster the development of "ethical sentiments" in future legal practitioners. While the majority of jurisprudence courses within a standard law curriculum tend to use political theory, philosophical, or socio-cultural approaches to the fundamental questions considered in this type of course (what is justice? what is fairness? what does ethical conduct mean for a lawyer?), this course uses literary texts to foreground basic questions relating to ethics and professional responsibility in the practice of law. Whereas a Professional Responsibility or Professional Ethics course often deal with the precise rules and regulations of a specific jurisdiction"s ethical code, the law and literature jurisprudence seminar seeks to broaden the experience of law students through juxtaposing fictional narratives (novels, short stories, plays, poetry) with and ongoing ethical questions future lawyers will undoubtedly face throughout their careers.
In the world of children's literature, almost everyone (except perhaps the child reader) is an im... more In the world of children's literature, almost everyone (except perhaps the child reader) is an imposter or impersonator of sorts. Children's authors are obliged to return to a time in their past when they were…children. Or thought they were. Thus translators of children's books (or books for children, or books said to be for children but not really, or books for both children and adults who have never grown up, or books for childlike adults, or-the permutations are seemingly endless here) find themselves involved in an even more complex impersonation act. How does the translator find the space of that original text, where the author was, after all, an "original" impersonator and then proceed to successfully repopulate that same textual space in order to create a translated text world for a reader who is, at least sometimes, a "real" child?
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