New Directions for retranslations research: Lessons Learned from the archaeology of retranslations in the finnish literary system

Abstract

Neste artigo, discutimos a fase arqueológica de nossa pesquisa acerca da retradução no sistema literário finlandês. Abordamos a questão do ponto de vista dos desenvolvimentos passados e futuros da pesquisa em retradução, com foco na metodologia. Defendemos que, para que nossa compreensão do fenômeno avance, a orientação tradicional para os estudos de caso na pesquisa em retradução deve ser complementada por outras abordagem, em macroníveis. Discutimos que tipo de perguntas de pesquisa nossos dados arqueológicos nos permitem gerar, de que modo a coleta de informações bibliográficas de um conjunto mais amplo de traduções nos permitiu encontrar um lugar para os estudos de caso individuais no quadro mais amplo, e de que modo nos permitiu comparar nossas descobertas com pesquisas em macronível de outros pesquisadores. O próximo passo para a pesquisa em retradução consistirá, segundo cremos, de estudos fazendo novas perguntas com base em tal evidência empírica de macronível (testada em conjuntos de dados novos, específicos, ou em estudos de caso), e em comparações entre estes estudos concluídas em diferentes contextos culturais, históricos e literários.

A Literature Review on the Research and Development of Chinese and Western Re-translation

“…Xu Jun (2014) attributed the constant emergence of "retranslations" to "some non-literary factors are at work, especially driven by economic interests." In this regard, Western Koskinen and Paloposki (2003) gave a relatively pertinent evaluation-"The force behind the decision to retranslate is probably rather cultural than financial, but one reward for retranslation is favorable publicity for the publisher, and this, no doubt, is not bad for the business". Wang Zhenping (2015) concludes that meaning is always in the cycle of "introducing new ideas and innovation".…”

Modernity Retranslated: Nationalism as a Tool of Culture in a Complex Polysystem

“…Therefore, this paper delves into a detailed descriptive and explanatory analysis asking who sings the nation-state 2 in Uriel Heyd's narrative on the father of modern sociology in Turkey and one of the principal theorizers on Turkish nationalism, Ziya Gökalp, as well as the many songs of representations in the 1979, 1980, 2001, 2002, and 2010, respectively. This data set also provides empirical evidence for questioning aging of language as raison d'être of retranslation, which the study by Koskinen and Paloposki (2019) calls "self-fulfilling prophesy 1 The historical construction of a theory of translation from the 'German' roots of comparative literature and the totalitarian nature of such theorizing require specific research into how complexity thinking is reflected in systemic approaches to translation studies. See Sayın 2020.…”

“…Though recent research does not necessarily share Berman's method of analysis and answer to his call for translation criticism, the literature is conspicuously inattentive to the major paradigms of translation studies. Leaving the unilinear positioning of time, space, and hence language in Berman's retranslation hypothesis based on German idealism to another study, 1 the present one attempts to fill a gap in retranslation research that Kaisa Koskinen and Outi Paloposki (2019) underscore by "macro level approaches" (23). For this purpose, a 'multi-pronged approach' is surely necessary; however, as this study indicates, it is already available.…”

“…This article stresses that the constant amusement with the problem of aging might have obscured a more significant aspect of identifying rather larger epochs in retranslation scholarship. Yet, first a clarification is due particularly in light of terms used in studies on retranslation and the epistemology behind them, since a remarkable similarity is observed in Berman's (1990) "nontraduction" (non-translation) (5) and Koskinen and Paloposki's (2019) "non-retranslation" (31). Berman (1990) attributes "non-translation" to failure of a translated work and hence quite lucidly denies existence of a translation, when he suggests: "Toute traduction est défaillante, c'est-à-dire entropique, quels que soient ses principes.…”

“…It means that every translation is marked by a "non-translation"; my translation). On the other hand, Koskinen and Paloposki (2019) describe non-retranslations as special cases of non-aging and define the term as "works that remain relevant and read but do not get retranslated or revised" (31-32). The very first translation of Heyd's Foundations provides a remarkable case for this methodological drawback only proper contextualization can ameliorate.…”