ON LIONS, FANS AND CROSSES. A LOW COUNTRIES LEGACY FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES

• Authors: Naaijkens Ton
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In all his papers, James S. Holmes kept hammering home a systematic approach to translating and translation studies, while at the same time pointing to the insufficiency of the respective operations and analyses. He coined enduring metaphors for both translation processes and the description thereof – like fans and crosses – but at the same time converted the accompanying vagueness into clarifying diagrams and scientific terms. Holmes duly took into account that both translators and translation scholars “may very likely discover blank spaces” in their own “maps”. And he deliberately did not exclude himself from this assessment. In my contribution, I sketch Holmes’s position in the contemporary landscape of translation studies, both the land he mapped out and in the land that remained virgin territory.

Keywords

EN

TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION STUDIES; POETRY TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION CRITICISM; HOLMES JAMES

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 38 – 48

Contributors

author

Naaijkens Ton

• Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University, Trans 103512 jk Utrecht, Netherlands