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The study focuses on the work of the Jesuit historian Maximilianus Wietrowsky Historia S. Joannis Nepomuceni (1729) and its Czech translation Zpráva historická o životě sv. Jana Nepomuckého [Historical report on the...

In the fall of 2010 Prague Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON) published the Czech translation of Maurice Halbwachs’s book La mémoire collective [2010]. The French sociologist is considered the founder of social memo...

This study deals with problematic features of Czech-Hungarian translation, focusing primarily on issues regarding translations of contemporary Hungarian literature, not only from the aesthetic point of view but from a li...

By means of historiographical and critical analysis, the present article aims to map out “the traces” of sociological concepts in the works of Jiři Levy in comparison to the works of A. Popovič and F. Miko. The aim...

This paper compares the original version of the chapter “Tři faze překladatelovy prace” from Czech Theorist Jiři Levy’s book Umění překladu, with its German translation. The original was published 1963 in Cze...

The paper outlines and discusses the beginnings, character and development of Czech criticism of translations of English literature in the nineteenth century. It does so in the wider context of debates concerning the rol...

Translator training has been increasingly relying on simulations of real-life professional practice. One way of bringing learning closer to authentic professional experience is by introducing project-based instruction. T...

The contribution deals with the use of electronic tools for investigating the transfer of authorial style in literary translation. It first introduces a method of sentence length analysis of source texts and target texts...

The article aims to present the contemporary reception of the ideas of the Czech translation scholar Jiři Levy in Spain and Latin America. His ideas, formulated in the 1950s, remain perfectly valid till the present day;...

The paper discusses the role of directionality in translations from Czech to German language. Its main purpose is to detect differences in the translation process between native and non-native translations, with a specia...

Dealing with a so far unknown part of Czech translation history, the paper uncovers traces of communist ideology in Czech translations of poems written by a Russian and Soviet poet Sergey Jesenin (1895–1925). First, it...

The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the challenges resulting from the fact that classes in translation taught at the Institute of Translation Studies (Charles University, Prague, Czechia) in its double degree pro...