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University of Iowa - Iowa City |
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Program Description |
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For more than forty years
literary translation has been an integral part of
both curriculum and conversation about writing at
the University of Iowa. Emerging from the idea that
translation is much more than a matter of carrying a
work from one language to another like so much coal
in a tram, the translation program encourages
students to explore not only the form and content of
works, but the context—literary, cultural,
historical—from which original works arise.
Translators in the program focus on creating works
that convey both the timelessness of the original
and the immediacy of contemporary language and
literature. In the Translation Workshop and in a
variety of translation-based seminars, students also
examine ideas of literariness, cultural history,
cultural politics, and authority as they relate to
the relationship between authors and texts, authors
and translators, translations and readers, and the
media landscapes in which they circulate. The center of the MFA is the Translation Workshop, and every candidate must take a minimum of 12 hours of this. Attention to translation theory is an integral part of the Workshop's procedures. However, MFA candidates are expected, in addition, to familiarize themselves with the history of translation in the Western tradition. This is normally accomplished through guided reading (Individual Study), or by taking the course in the History and Theory of Translation, when offered.
The remaining hours are taken
from courses decided upon by the candidate and the
committee, but coverage of the following
distributional areas must be included. Thesis and Examination
The thesis is a translation of a
collection of poems or short stories, a short novel,
or a drama, with an introduction which sets the work
within its literary context. The introduction, in
addition to discussing problems of translation,
should present a rationale for the strategies and
techniques adopted, its point of departure being an
analysis of the structure and style of the source
text. An oral defense of the thesis examines in
detail both the candidate's translation and the
introductory essay. |
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Costs |
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Editor notes |
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Part of the Department of Cinema & Comparative Literature, the MFA in Translation offered by the University of Iowa focuses mainly on literature theory, not only improving the student’s translation skills, but also his literature criticism as a means to perfection his capacity of translating literary texts, since the most important thing in literary translation is understanding and interpreting the text before translating it.
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~ccl/mfatranslation.shtml
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Contact Information |
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University of Iowa
Department of Cinema & Comparative Literature •
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