AJ29071 Translation of Essays in Culture and Politics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2001
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jiří Svoboda (lecturer), Ing. Mgr. Jiří Rambousek, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Mgr. Jiří Rambousek, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is based on eighteen months of experience with translating the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske, professor of cultural history at Princeton University. This publication, considered in the West a landmark in the thinking about the turn-of-the-century Austrian politics, science and culture, deals with the changes of liberal concepts of the world in literature (Hofmannstahl, Saar, Stifter), explains the collapse of liberal values under the pressure of the new kind of politics (two anti-Semitists - Schoenerer, Lueger; and the Zionist leader, Herzl), describes the development of Austrian architecture (O. Wagner and C. Sitte), analyses the whole artistic pilgrimage of Gustav Klimt, explores the influence of politics on the origin of psychoanalysis (Freud's Interpretation of Dreams) and, finally, depicts the new approach to the world as presented by expressionism (O. Kokoschka in painting and literature, and A. Schoenberg in music). For each seminar, translation of a portion of the text will be assigned. The discussion will then include compari-sons of the versions presented by students, factual and stylistic problems of the text (which the translator had the opportunity to sort out with the author himself) and also the German and French translations of the book.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Assessment: Translation plus analysis.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009.
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