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Title: Insights into teaching poetry translation: a pleasurable task

 

Vol. 3, 2018, pp. 6-18.

DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2018.v03.001

 

Author: N. Berrin Aksoy

About the author: Prof Nüzhet Berrin Aksoy, PhD received her BA, MA and PhD from the Department of English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey. Professor Aksoy worked in the Department of Translation/Interpretation at Hacettepe University as a Junior and Senior lecturer and as department chair until she took an early retirement in 2007 and started to work as senior lecturer and department chair in the department of English Translation and Interpretation at Atılım University. Professor Aksoy has researched extensively in the fields of translation studies, English literature, cultural studies and comparative literary studies and published in Internationally-indexed publications such as Babel, and META, Annals of the Ovidius University, Lyuboslovie and FLT of University of Shumen as well as many national refereed journals. Professor Aksoy has also presented papers at International Congresses as invited and key-note speaker. Professor Aksoy is fluent in English and French.

e-mail: berrin.aksoy@atilim.edu.tr

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5716-1962

 

Citation (APA style): Aksoy, N. B. (2018). Insights into teaching poetry translation: a pleasurable task. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 3, 6-18. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2018.v03.001

 

Link:

https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2018/SILC_2018_3_6-18_13_EN.pdf

 

Abstract: In the Translation Departments of Higher Education Institutions in Turkey as in elsewhere, poetry translation is the least studied and the most discussed course among the students who usually harbor pessimistic opinion about the possibility of going through a successful and pleasurable course. In this study, an integrated approach to the teaching of poetry translation is proposed by means of studying Philip Larkin’s poem “Mr Bleaney” as the text for translation into Turkish, which is the mother tongue of the students concerned. The proposed integrated approach is an insight into the teaching of poetical translation bringing together a preliminary study of the formal, contextual and artistic elements of poetry in general and the poem as the text to be translated in particular, with that of a sound and comprehensive study of theoretical notions of poetical translation. It is hoped that this approach may prove to equip the students with the required confidence, skills, knowledge, and competencies to turn the practice of poetry translation into a pleasurable task.

Key words: poetry translation, teaching poetry translation, poetical translation    

 

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