Parker, Jan (2001). Dialogic education and the problematics of translation in Homer and Greek tragedy. Studies in Classics Number, 17. Edwin Mellen Press.
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Abstract
This book opens up a new way of reading classical literary texts, appropriate both to the needs and competencies of today’s university students and also, it is argued, to the classic texts themselves. The texts’ rich linguistic fabric is constructed out of the play of issues and character, of action and of evaluation; a play that is quickly lost in translation. The solution offered is not the traditional one of ever more intensive language teaching. Rather, the book argues for the provision of texts glossed with key words to enable students to create engaged, critical readings for themselves: to read through rather than in translation.
This book opens up a new way of reading classical literary texts, appropriate both to the needs and competencies of today’s university students and also, it is argued, to the classic texts themselves. The texts’ rich linguistic fabric is constructed out of the play of issues and character, of action and of evaluation; a play that is quickly lost in translation. The solution offered is not the traditional one of ever more intensive language teaching. Rather, the book argues for the provision of texts glossed with key words to enable students to create engaged, critical readings for themselves: to read through rather than in translation.
| Item Type: | Authored Book |
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| ISBN: | 0-7734-7401-3, 978-0-7734-7401-7 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Institute of Educational Technology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
| Item ID: | 901 |
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| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2010 19:45 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/901 |
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