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LALW404 Translations: Literature, Language and Psychology 3cr

What drives humans to use artistic means to communicate? Why do we manifest our thoughts and feeling as images, as texts, on the screen and on a canvas? This course considers these questions through a study of the concept of translation broadly defined. Students translate from one language to another, paraphrase within a single language, interpret signs, translate from one artistic medium to another, and translate inner thoughts to the outside world. Course materials include film adaptations of literary texts, poems based on plays, paintings based on poems or novels, adaptations of TV series for foreign audiences, and theories about the possibility of communicating one’s inner world to the outside. Readings by Borges, Freud, Pirandello, Jhumpa Lahiri, E.T.A. Hoffman, André Breton, Kafka, Hawthorne, Shakespeare, and Ovid.

Prerequisites: LALW200

Lecture
Undergraduate Elective
Spring