NOII_074 History of Translating from Scandinavian Languages

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miluše Juříčková, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miluše Juříčková, CSc.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Miluše Juříčková, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Tha aim of the course is to give overview of translation history from Norwegian as an imporant phenomenon of culture exchange, in bilateral and international perspective.
Learning outcomes
Student is oriented in the history and methods of cultural transfer between Scandinavian and Czech/Slovak culture and literature.
Syllabus
  • Begin and evelopment of the mutual relations
  • The Norwegian great Four on the Czech dramaturgy
  • between the wars - the top period for Norwegian modernism
  • Translator skills and personality
  • The most important publishing houses in Norway and Czech Rep
  • Norla
  • Scandinavian detective novels in the translatological context
  • Brno in the Scandinavian translation history
Literature
  • VIMR, Ondřej. Historie překladatele : cesty skandinávských literatur do češtiny (1890-1950). Vydání první. Příbram: Pistorius & Olšanská, 2014, 205 stran. ISBN 9788087855140. info
  • JUŘÍČKOVÁ, Miluše, Jaroslav KOVÁŘ and Jiří MUNZAR. Skandinávie včera a dnes. Cyklus přednášek k Úvodu do skandinávských studií. (Scandinavia yesterday and today). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Univerzita třetího věku., 2007, 17 pp. Cyklus přednášek - Univerzita třetího věku. ISBN 978-80-210-4387-9. info
  • Krajina s pobřežím, aneb, Sto let norské povídky. Edited by Ondřej Vimr. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2005, 274 s. ISBN 8072037110. info
  • JUŘÍČKOVÁ, Miluše. Cestami Sigrid Undsetové. Brno: Doplněk, 2004, 87 s. ISBN 8072391690. info
  • Severské literatury nové doby : anthologie a přehled. Edited by Gustav Pallas. V Praze: Školní nakladatelství, 1939, 222 s. URL info
  • PALLAS, Gustav. Slovníček literární. V Praze: J. Otto, 1923. info
  • PALLAS, Gustav. Mistři novelistiky severské. Praha: J. Otto, 1921, 416 s. info
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar
Assessment methods
project activity, written essay, oral exam
Language of instruction
Norwegian
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on completion of the course: ukončeno zkouškou
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2022, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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