Abstract
The digital reinvention of literary studies within literary translation teaching and research informs the PEnPAL in Trans project. This inter-institutional venture joins higher education agents and researchers in Translation Studies, Literary Studies and Linguistics. Elaborating on the notions of process-oriented education and “social constructivism” (Kiraly, 2000), PEnPAL in Trans has developed a specific awareness of the literary translator’s “expert action” (Jones, 2011). Drawing on a project-based philosophy of translation training, it envisions the translated anthology as a collaborative format with potential in the digital environment. The database on English-Portuguese transfer problems under development combines the advantages of translation manuals and example-driven tools as translation memories. Thus, it will constitute a categorized database of examples from hard-to-translate texts together with their translation(s) and translation strategy(ies). This database will be accessible online, thereby providing a public tool on the English-Portuguese language pair. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_4
Highlights
The digital reinvention of literary studies within literary translation teaching and research informs the PEnPAL in Trans project
PEnPAL in Trans is a project about applied literary translation that began in 2011
PEnPAL in Trans constitutes “a scene of encounters”, which has been identified by Alan Liu (2008) as one of the major characteristics of Digital Humanities
Summary
It constitutes an inter-institutional endeavour that provides support for literary translation teaching, and eventually literary translation practice For this purpose, an online platform (http://penpalintranslation.com) and an accompanying blog (http://penpalintranslation.blogspot.pt) were created, which promoted collaborative work on a collectively built anthology of source texts. PEnPAL in Trans constitutes “a scene of encounters”, which has been identified by Alan Liu (2008) as one of the major characteristics of Digital Humanities (henceforward DH) It depends on and promotes encounters between literary translation teachers and colleagues of the same or other universities (namely the University of Lisbon, the New University of Lisbon, the Catholic University of Lisbon and, until 2014, the Lusophone University), with authors and, hopefully, with publishers; the project relies on and encourages (virtual) encounters between researchers from the same and other national and foreign universities and from various academic fields; and, last but not least, it is sustained through encounters of literary translation students with classmates, students from other classes and universities, researchers, authors and potentially the whole community. Collaborative literary translation has been encouraged on some sites, whether connected to the world of literary dissemination and journals (e.g. Poetry Translation Centre, poetrytranslation.org; Modern Poetry in Translation, mptmagazine.com) or to universities
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