Translators and Translations Greek-Danish

Name: Translators and Translations Greek-Danish
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ISBN: 9788779340039

ISBN-10: 8779340032

ISBN-13: 9788779340039

Edition: 2001

Authors: Henrik Holmboe, Signe Isager

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The difficulties of a translation vary with the character of the text, the nature of the languages involved and the intended audience. Working in two languages that boast long recorded histories yet lack the status of 'passport' tongues, the contributors to this volume wrestle with the full range of problems encountered by translators everywhere. The sixteen pieces in the book draw on experience in diverse fields but may be roughly divided into four sections. The first focuses on translations from ancient Greek to Danish, with essays that describe specific textual challenges - the Iliad, the New Testament, the Greek tragedies translated for the stage - and take up the question of the…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Publication date: 12/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 203
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


The Forging of a New Danish Iliad



Translating Greek Tragedy. The Text on the Page, The Drama on the Stage



How Ancient Greek Literature Reached Danish Readers



Translating the Bible



Translations and Classical Civilization in the Danish Gymnasium



European Literature in Translation: Research at the Center for the Greek Language



Modern Greek Literature in Danish Translation



Note on Bibliography


On Translating S. Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments into Greek



Achilleus Paraschos and Two Danish Folk Songs



Translating into Greek from Danish 19th Century Texts



How Danish and Greek Legal Languages Meet in the Multilingual Environment of the European Community



Eurospeak: Neologisms and Other Translatory Phenomena in Danish and Greek. The European Parliament Minutes and Reports Corpus



Translation from Modern Greek into Danish at the EU institutions



Texts, Translation and Subtitling - in Theory, and in Denmark



Subtitling in Greece. The Fear of the Goalie at the Penalty Kick



Short Description of the CD-ROM "Filoglossia"



List of Contributors