Starting in the spring 2020 semester, the University of Connecticut began offering a minor that allows students to explore literary translation while learning how to interact with people from other ...

I START from a patent fact,—the widespread ignorance of classical literature on the part of persons who have received a classical education. It is not the scholarship of scholars that is here impugned ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and humans have engaged in a competition to translate Korean literary works into English. Who emerged victorious? Recently, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea ...

Literary translators have long used computers for basic assistance, for example in the form of online dictionaries and corpora, but they have also long been resistant to the idea that machine ...

The field of translation within global literary dynamics encompasses the multifaceted processes through which literature traverses linguistic and cultural borders. Recent scholarship has examined not ...

Translation is at the heart of the humanities, and it arises in every discipline in the social sciences and beyond, but it is not easy to say what it is. This course looks at the role of translation ...

How is literary translation different from other forms of translation? To oversimplify a little, non-literary translation such as commercial, legal, medical etc. tends to focus on the meaning of a ...

“You don’t have your own field to plough, so you go to plough in other people’s fields,” said a commentator about literary translators, in the context of an incident that was discussed widely on the ...

How can independent publishers get works of translated literature to readers in an era marked by media saturation and increased dominance by major companies over the book business, all after years of ...

Russian novelist Anna Matveeva and poet-journalist Maxim Zamshev warned of the dangers of unregulated artificial intelligence ...