RFG MEETING: Translation Studies
Elide Valarini Oliver (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB)
Monday, November 20 / 3:00 PM
IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
Elide Valarini Oliver will be presenting her work on
the translation of Francois Rabelais into Portuguese.
The presentation will lead to a discussion of the tasks
of translation more generally. Professor Oliver has translated
for the Portuguese, among others, O
Terceiro Livro das Aventuras de Pantagruel by François Rabelais (São
Paulo, Ateliê Editorial, forthcoming), annotated
edition with critical and linguistic comments; A
Canção
dos Loureiros by Édouard du Jardin (Rio de Janeiro,
Globo, 1989); Aurélia, by Gérard de
Nerval (São Paulo, Icone, 1986); works by Swift, Hawthorne,
Flann O’Brien, poetry by T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney,
Nerval, Baudelaire, Larkin, among others.
Sponsored by the IHC's Translation Studies Research
Focus Group
