ENGL 304 - Literary Translation Workshop

A class in the art and craft of literary translation. Students will read about critical, theoretical, and practical approaches to the translation of literature, develop and define their own ethics and esthetics of the interesting and troubled act of translation, and finally express their esthetic theories in the form first of a manifesto and later of a translator’s preface or afterward to their final project. All students should come to the first class with a reading knowledge of a foreign language, and with a tentative final project in mind, but it will not be expected that all will share the same languages. Students may translate prose or poetry. A prior creative writing workshop is recommended.

Pre-req: ENGL 110, ENGL 120, ENGL 220, or ENGL 221
3 credits