Theory
In his 1923 essay “The Task of the Translator,” this philosopher argues that translation reveals the “afterlife” of literary works.
Who is Walter Benjamin?
This Russian author’s story “The Nose” is used to explore untranslatability and the absurd.
Who is Nikolai Gogol?
The narrator first learns about Uqbar during a late-night conversation with his friend about writing a novel in this narrative perspective.
What is first-person?
This sentence type comes first in the paragraph and announces the claim the rest of the paragraph will prove.
What is a topic sentence?
This percentage of your grade comes from the final research-based Paper 3, not including the bibliography or presentation.
What is 30%?
Jakobson calls this phenomenon "rewording."
What is "intralingual translation"?
This Argentine writer’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” imagines a world manufactured through encyclopedic invention.
Who is Jorge Luis Borges?
This wealthy American nihilist funds the expansion of the project from inventing a country to inventing an entire planet.
Who is Ezra Buckley?
You should ask this simple two-word question to check whether your thesis actually makes an argument.
What is "so what"?
This is the meeting time for office hours.
What is Wednesday, 11-12:30pm?
Venuti explains that when translation seems perfectly fluent, the translator’s work becomes this—hard to see at all.
What is invisible?
A whimsical, encyclopedic text presented in an invented language, Codex Seraphinianus is written by this Italian artist.
Who is Luigi Serafini?
This hemisphere of Tlön so completely changes its grammar that this part of speech—common in English— does not exist in other Tlön languages.
What is Southern hemisphere and what are nouns?
According to the Paper 1 rubric, this method—described as focusing on how an idea is presented—forms the foundation of your first assignment.
What is close reading?
Unexcused absences beyond this number result in failing the course.
What is four?
Lahiri suggests that translators are expected to be “invisible,” echoing Echo’s fate of existing only as this—something “heard by all” but “seen by none.”
What is voice?
Jessica Brantley quoted this Shakespearean play as the basis for her theory of literary creation.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
In one hemisphere of Tlön, language is built on verbs and adverbial suffixes; instead of “moon,” a speaker would express this verbal action.
What is “to moon” or “to moonate”?
When citing prose in MLA, you must always include this element in your in-text parenthetical citation—unlike in poetry, which requires line numbers instead.
What are page numbers?
This unit's title introduced Roman Jakobson and Vladimir Nabokov, among others.
What is "Words With Borders"?
Spivak famously declares that this act—more than writing or analysis—is “the most intimate act of reading.”
What is translation?
The character Ludmilla appears in this novel.
What is If on a winter's night a traveler?
In “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” this mysterious encyclopedia volume—found with four extra pages—reveals the first description of the nonexistent country of Uqbar.
What is Volume XLVI of the Anglo-American Cyclopaedia?
This term refers to the statement that answers your text-based question and explains your argument.
What is a claim?
Using ChatGPT or other LLMs for written assignments falls under this category of prohibited academic behavior.
What is academic dishonesty (plagiarism)?