Modern Literary Theory Translation Studies Practice and Methodology of Comparative Literature Dissertation Assessment Admission Teaching and supervison are organised on an interdepartmental basis. These are taught to small groups, in the form of lectures, seminars and tutorials. All texts are read in English translation. Teaching sessions are envisaged as interactive, with a limited amount of lecturing and an emphasis on student participation and critical discussion. With the approval of the programme co-ordinator a course taken at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies may be substituted for one of the three courses listed below.
Students also prepare a dissertation under the supervision of staff from the appropriate department.
Other aspects such as dialogism, genre theory and intertextuality are explored in special seminars. There is a historical as well as a theoretical component to this course. The theoretical part considers the nature, scope and cultural significance of translation, from different viewpoints. The historical part investigates changing conceptions of translation and their relevance to the practice of literary translation in the Western tradition from Saint Jerome to the present day. Additional seminars explore case studies and individual translations, involving different genres, periods and languages.