Traduzione dell’articolo: The Power of The People: Emmeline Pankhurst and women’s suffrage. – di Alexandra Tönies. “You have two babies very hungry and wanting to be fed. One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and […]
Troilus and Cressida: A Translation Exercise
Shakespeare’s Language and a Translation Exercise The purpose of this article is to analyse another section of Shakespeare’s English in a selected excerpt from his Troilus and Cressida, and provide a translation of the passage together with an argumentation of the methodology used during the translation process. The excerpt I decided to translate is taken […]
Conference “Time and places of poetry – Reflections on the translation of texts in English”.
Poetry translation: gain and loss Translation is a process that from one language to another always makes you lose something of the source language. There were many interesting aspects during the meeting on Friday, November 23 “Time and places of poetry – Reflections on the translation of texts in English”. It takes its title from the […]
Some Reflection upon Marriage-proposta di traduzione del primo trattato femminista
Enter into thy closet Il presente articolo ha come oggetto la proposta di traduzione dall’inglese, più precisamente Modern English, all’italiano,della prima parte del trattato Some Reflection upon Marriage di Mary Astell, considerata la prima femminista inglese. Nata a Newcastle upon Tyne, Mary Astell è definita come la prima femminista inglese, per via dei suoi scritti […]
Proposta di traduzione Nicholas J. Spykman, l’invention de la géopolitique américaine – Olivier Zajec. (parte II)
Il presente articolo ha lo scopo di presentare una proposta di traduzione di alcune pagine del saggio di Olivier Zajec intitolato «Nicholas J. Spykman,l’invention de la géopolitique américaine. Un itinéraire intellectuel aux origines paradoxales de la théorie réaliste des relations internationales », pubblicato nel 2016. Le pagine che propongo (pp.34-43) fanno parte della prima sezione del […]
Traduzione inedita- “En Chimà nace un santo” di Manuel Zapata Olivella
Traduzione inedita -“En Chimà nace un santo” di Manuel Zapata Olivella Manuel Zapata Olivella è una delle voci più interessanti all’interno del panorama letterario colombiano contemporaneo. Sfortunatamente l’autore però non è tradotto in italiano, per questo di seguito proponiamo la traduzione di una delle sue opere più rappresentative “Nasce un santo a Chimà” che, per quanto […]
Translation of verse 59 to verse 73 of William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
Translation of verse 59 to verse 73 of William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida Introduction It is widely acknowledged that William Shakespeare has been one of the greatest poet and writer of all times. Translating a Shakespearean text is a daunting and laborious task given the nature of the text and the linguistic and intercultural connotations […]
Proposta di traduzione: Nicholas J. Spykman, l’invention de la géopolitique américaine- Olivier Zajec
Il presente articolo ha lo scopo di presentare una proposta di traduzione di alcune pagine del saggio di Olivier Zajec intitolato “«Nicholas J. Spykman, l’invention de la géopolitique américaine. Un itinéraire intellectuel aux origines paradoxales de la théorie réaliste des relations internationales », pubblicato nel 2016 da Presses de Paris-Sorbonne. Attraverso questo saggio, Zajec offre la prima […]
Linguistics and video games: an example of localisation
“Multimedia interactive entertainment software, most commonly referred to as video games, first became popular through gaming arcades in the United States and Canada (in the early 1970s), and Japan (in the late 1970s), with unforgettable titles such as Pong (Atari 1972) , Space Invaders (Taito 1978), and Pac-Man (Namco 1979) , and quickly spread to […]
Troilus and Cressida: a translation exercise
The purpose of this article is providing an Italian translation of a scene from one of the most influential Shakespearean works Dated back to 1602, Troilus and Cressida has as particularity two different plots. The first one, which also gives the title to the drama concerns the short but intense love story between Troilus, the […]