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Castelló de La Plana, Spain

Jaume I University

Applied Languages, Literature and Translation

Lenguas Aplicadas, Literatura y Traducción

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⇑Applied Languages, Literature and Translation at UJI

Language: Spanish Studies in Spanish

Subject area: languages

University website: www.uji.es

Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Doctor

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works. More restrictively, literature writing is considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (not all languages do) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community.

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Translation

I conceive it is a vulgar error in translating poets, to affect being fidus interpres... [for] poetry is of so subtile a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum, there being certain graces and happinesses peculiar to every language, which give life and energy to the words... therefore if Virgil must needs speak English, it were fit he should speak not only as a man of this nation, but as [a] man of this age.

John Denham, The Destruction of Troy (1656), Preface.

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Literature

La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du café.

The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee.

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Translation

A good poet is no more like himself in a dull translation than his carcass would be to his living body.

John Dryden, Preface to Sylvae, or the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies (1685).

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