translation studies. retrospective and prospective views

Translation Studies: Retrospective and Prospective Views ISSN 2065 - 3514
(2008) Year I, Issue 1
Galati University Press
Editors: Elena Croitoru & Floriana Popescu (First volume)
Proceedings of the Conference Translation Studies: Retrospective and Prospective Views
9 – 11 October 2008 “Dunărea de Jos” Univeristy of Galati, Romania
Foreword
The first volume of this series includes those papers considering
aspects of the literary text or message presented within the literature and
culture studies concurrent sessions. They were delivered in English or
French and they have their titles in the original, but in order to ensure the
English readership wider access to the papers, an outline of the topics
discussed in each of the papers as well as excerpts from the abstracts
accompanying the conference participation offers were selected and are
available in what follows. In case prospective readers of the current volume
would choose to exchange ideas with any of the volume contributors, their
e-mail addresses are also provided.
SIMONA ANTOFI discusses the influence of G.G.Byron’s Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage on Bolintineanu’s Conrad. Her paper, Conrad, Dimitrie
Bolintineanu’s Poem and Its Romantic Model, suggests to that Bolintineanu
purposefully creates a multi-layered romantic poem of ideas similar to
Byron’s. Conrad, like the Byronic poems, reveals the same type of
problems, of heroes, the same historic reconstructions which bear the
imprint of a peculiar lyricism, of the same type of sea poetry as well as the
exotic picturesque.
Simona Antofi, associate professor, works at the Department of
Literature, Linguistics and Journalism, Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos”
University of Galaţi, Romania. Her field of research considers the
Romanian literature of the 19 th and 20 th centuries.
Contact: simoantofi@yahoo.com
RUXANDA BONTILĂ considers Annotation as Transtextual
Translation and her major intention is to discern the profile of an annotator.
Taking as a starting point the prolificacy of Vladimir Nabokov’s oeuvre, it
has encouraged a number of annotators to embark upon the difficult, very
often annoying task of annotating his works. The following by now famous
names are envisaged here: Alfred Appel Jr., who consensually (i.e. having
the writer’s approval in terms of meaning) annotated Lolita (1970); and
Brian Boyd who completed his long journey work of annotating Ada only
last year (2007).
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