The systematic conception of translation in early Czech structural functionalist theory : the cases of Vojtěch Jirát (1938) and Vilém Mathesius (1942)

Vol.27,No.2(2024)

Cristian Cámara Outes

https://doi.org/10.5817/BL2024-2-7

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.81217

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Abstract
Despite having been scarcely studied so far, the corpus of texts on translatological phenomena published between 1926 and 1948 by authors belonging to the Prague School represents in itself a significant episode in the history of translation theory in the 20th century, and one that definitely deserves more scholarly attention. In this paper, firstly, the theoretical foundations established by Jan Mukařovský for the study of the functions of translations in the evolution of literary systems are analyzed. Secondly, the translatological conceptions in two texts by V. Jirát and V. Mathesius are outlined. Finally, a comparison between the ideas of the Czech authors and the proposals of André Lefevere's theory of manipulation is drawn.

Keywords:
theory of translation; Prague School; Czech sructuralism; Vilém Mathesius; literary studies

Pages:
97–113
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