Translation as criticism

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Rethinking the Use of “Should” in Translation Criticism

The use of “should” in the applied translation studies such as translators training, translation aids and translation criticism has proved to be one of the most important tools for progress in the discipline since Holme put forward the basic map of Translation Studies. In this paper, the author discusses mainly the use of “should” in translation criticism, arguing that, the many advantages to b...

ترجمه بخشی از کتاب translation as a profession (حرفه ترجمه)

دانیل گوداک در این کتاب فوق العاده خواندنی درباره دومین حرفه در جهان آشکارا سخن می گوید و معتقد است که گرچه گاهی اوقات بیان واقعیت زیان آور است، اما در عین حال چشم انداز روشن و امیدوارکننده ای از حرفه ترجمه را ترسیم می نماید. مزیت و برتری اصلی کتاب در کامل بودنش است. گوداک دید عمیقی از حرفه ترجمه را ارائه می دهد که برای تشویق مترجمان و همچنین برای مترجمان واقعی که درباره شغل شان تجدیدنظر و تف...

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

Burkeian Criticism

In conclusion, we should like to add two admonitions. First, criticism is an art, not the raw tables or summaries of scholarship. The scholarship is a necessary prerequisite, and the formal reports, the compilations of the learned monograph, are essential to criticism. We have too much of unimaginative word counting, the pedestrian assemblage of arguments, the methodical and generalized comment...