[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Traduzione Tradizione? Paths in the European Literary Polysystem (6/15/06; journal issue)

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From: enrico monti <emonti@lingue.unibo.it>

Call for Journal Submissions

RiLUNe - Review of Literatures of the European Union

RiLUnE (http://www.rilune.org) is a refereed, bilingual journal publishing
scholarly articles which examine the development of a European cultural and
literary conscience.

For its 4th monographic issue, we are now calling for articles on the topic
"Traduzione Tradizione? Paths in the European Literary Polysystem". 
Articles can
be in any of the following languages of the European Union: French, German,
English, Italian and Spanish.

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): March 31, 2006
Deadline for articles: June 15, 2006


Traduzione Tradizione? Paths in the European Literary Polysystem

The European literary and cultural heritage has been built in the course of
several centuries through processes of interlingual and intercultural
communication. The indisputable role of translation in this process 
allows to
disprove the overused cliche Traduttore Traditore with the more truthful
Traduzione Tradizione (Translation Tradition). In a broad sense, this 
formula
points out how the practice of translation is now consolidated in all the
countries and cultures which Rilune aims to explore. In its narrow sense 
though,
the formula also emphasizes one of the poles of the dialectics inherent 
in the
process of translation, tensed as it is between tradition and innovation 
(with
translation practices reasserting the literary canon on the one hand, and
subversive practices on the other--either in the choice of the source 
texts or
in the employed translation strategy).

At different times in European history, translation allowed for the 
transfer of
literary traditions and currents among different languages and it 
contributed to
renovate and modify profoundly the cultures in which it was practiced. 
Classical
examples of this can be found in the Latin imitatio of Greek texts, as 
well as
in the influence of Martin Luther's Bible on the development of a 
unified German
language. Or again, in more recent times, in the openness to the "stranger"
promoted by Romanticism (Berman 1984) and in the role of translation in the
transmission of Avant-garde ideas in the literary magazines of the early 
1900s
(Gubert 2003). Or, finally, in an odd practice such as that of resorting to
"fictitious translations" as a tool for cultural planning (Toury 2005).

In the latter half of the 20th Century, the intensified commercial contacts,
together with the ever increasing importance of mass-media, allowed for a
dramatic increase in the number of published translations, as shown in the
statistics of Unesco's Index Translationum. If a quantitative increase is
unquestionable (both in the number of translations and in the number of
languages from which these translations are made), is it possible to 
estimate
the effects of this increment on the European literary system, according 
to the
polysystem theory as defined by Itamar Even-Zohar (1979, 1990)? Where can we
locate--and is it possible to locate it?--the contemporary practice of
translation, in relation to the above-mentioned dialectic? Is 
translation still
a tradition, or rather a subversion? What role, in the end, does translation
play within the complex "system of polysystems" represented by European
literature?

Among the possible perspectives, we invite contributions that explore: the
evolution of the relationship between dominating and dominated languages 
in the
practice of translation, the choice of the texts to be translated in a given
historico-linguistic context, as well as the influence of translation in the
creation of a national literary canon. Specifically, we will favour papers
which, referring to the polysystem theory, tackle the literary discourse 
from a
multilingual and multinational perspective, thus locating the practice of
translation in the European literary world and trying to define (with 
reference
to specific intercultural paths) the role of translation in the creation 
of a
post-war European cultural conscience.

Enrico Monti & Fabio Regattin


Submission guidelines:

Please submit a paper copy (together with a digital one, i.e. cd-rom or
floppy-disk) or email your proposal to the Editorial Board. The texts 
shall be
MS Word-compatible (in case a different word-processor is employed, the text
shall be saved in a compatible format) and about 20.000 characters long 
(spaces
and notes included).

Articles are accepted in any of the following languages of the European 
Union:
French, German, English, Italian and Spanish. Every article shall be 
accompanied
by two abstracts in English and French, each one not exceeding 750 
characters
(spaces included), together with the translation of the title in these two
languages.

Four or five keywords shall be submitted to the Editorial Board together 
with
every article.

A short resume of not more than 200 characters shall be attached to the 
article
in either English, French or Italian. The affiliation which authors 
wishes to
have under their names shall be indicated at the end of the article, in
brackets, next to the name of the author (family name first).

Address questions to the editorial board: rilune@unibo.it;
emonti@lingue.unibo.it; regattin@lingue.unibo.it

For further information, visit: www.rilune.org




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