135113 SE Bachelor Thesis: Literary Translation within the Literary Polysystem (2021S)

In this seminar, we will look at the polysystem theory of the Tel Aviv school of Itamar Even-Zohar and Gideon Toury, introducing this theory in the sense of one of their fathers, Even-Zohar, who said that the theory was more serving as true. When the two theorists speak of polysystem, they mean all the systems that make literature, considered in its dynamic evolution. For example, they refer to main concepts such as literary canon, interference or inter-relationships among different cultures, or dynamic opposites such as Center vs. Periphery or tradition vs. Innovation. Translations, which introduce new texts of other Literatures into a literary polysystem, always play a very important role, especially if they get into a national literature that is still very "young" and seeks some stability, or if it is a literature that can be defined peripherally. Or even if the literature is in crisis. We will also be dealing with the role of the translator, and with intercultural hermeneutics and the communication function of literature in the intercultural process in which one is confronted with the "others". Daniel-Henri Pageaux believes that relationships with other cultures can come closer together only if you look at them positively, but if you look at them negatively, you can only become alienated.