CTIS Research Seminar Series: Prismatic Jane Eyre - An Experiment in the Study of Translations
| Dates: | 14 December 2023 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Dr Matthew Reynolds |
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Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been translated more than 600 times, into at least 68 languages. How can we grasp this plural, global, transtemporal and multilingual text? Is it in any sense possible to read it? With many collaborators, I’ve spent several years trying, and the results have just been published in an open-access, multimodal, interactive volume, Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0319 openbookpublishers.com). In the talk, I will describe some of the challenges we faced, how we met them (or not), and the techniques we adopted, including interactive digital maps and multilingual visualisations. I will also trace out the project’s theoretical underpinnings and ramifications, including the ideas of ‘prismatic translation’ and the ‘world work’.
Speaker
Dr Matthew Reynolds
Organisation: University of Oxford
Biography: Matthew Reynolds is Professor of English and Comparative Criticism at the University of Oxford, where he chairs the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT). Beyond Prismatic Jane Eyre, his books include Prismatic Translation (2019), Translation: A Very Short Introduction (2016), The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue (2011), Likenesses (2013), The Realms of Verse: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building (2001), and the novels Designs for a Happy Home (2009) and The World Was All Before Them (2013).
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