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@article{ART001298559},
author={Kyung-Il Park},
title={Comparative Literature and Translation Community},
journal={The Journal of Translation Studies},
issn={1229-795X},
year={2008},
volume={9},
number={4},
pages={93-141},
doi={10.15749/jts.2008.9.4.004}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kyung-Il Park
TI - Comparative Literature and Translation Community
JO - The Journal of Translation Studies
PY - 2008
VL - 9
IS - 4
PB - The Korean Association for Translation Studies
SP - 93
EP - 141
SN - 1229-795X
AB - Professor David R. McCann's translation of Korean Modernist poet Yun Dong-ju’s poetry, especially “Self-Portrait”, this paper argues, fails to represent in English the original and/or authorial meanings and emotions innate in the poems which are supposed to be metaphorized and formalized in various poetic forms he adopts. As Walter Benjamin argues in his essay “The Task of Translator”, to translate a poem is to represent the form of the source text most nearly into the target language, as a poem is a form. This paper argues that this kind of mal-translation derives mainly from the translator's personal mis-/interpretation which should be put under the tests of the scientific community related and the translating partners consisted of Korean Yun Dong-ju scholars, English Literature scholars, translation specialists, and native English translators well versed in Korean Literature as well English Literature. This paper names this kind of collaboration “the Wikinomics of translation” or “the translation community”. Personal mis-/interpretation falsifies, as it is argued by the Modernist poet-critic T.S. Eliot in his impersonal theory of poetry or his philosophical impersonalism, and so a desirable correct translation could be achieved by inter-personal and interdisciplinary community of interpretation and translation.
KW - Comparative Literature;Scientific Community;Translation Community;Interdisciplinary Collaboration;Yun Dong-ju's Poetry;Translation and Poetic Form;Translation and Interpretation
DO - 10.15749/jts.2008.9.4.004
ER -

Kyung-Il Park. (2008). Comparative Literature and Translation Community. The Journal of Translation Studies, 9(4), 93-141.

Kyung-Il Park. 2008, "Comparative Literature and Translation Community", The Journal of Translation Studies, vol.9, no.4 pp.93-141. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2008.9.4.004

Kyung-Il Park "Comparative Literature and Translation Community" The Journal of Translation Studies 9.4 pp.93-141 (2008) : 93.

Kyung-Il Park. Comparative Literature and Translation Community. 2008; 9(4), 93-141. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2008.9.4.004

Kyung-Il Park. "Comparative Literature and Translation Community" The Journal of Translation Studies 9, no.4 (2008) : 93-141.doi: 10.15749/jts.2008.9.4.004

Kyung-Il Park. Comparative Literature and Translation Community. The Journal of Translation Studies, 9(4), 93-141. doi: 10.15749/jts.2008.9.4.004

Kyung-Il Park. Comparative Literature and Translation Community. The Journal of Translation Studies. 2008; 9(4) 93-141. doi: 10.15749/jts.2008.9.4.004

Kyung-Il Park. Comparative Literature and Translation Community. 2008; 9(4), 93-141. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2008.9.4.004

Kyung-Il Park. "Comparative Literature and Translation Community" The Journal of Translation Studies 9, no.4 (2008) : 93-141.doi: 10.15749/jts.2008.9.4.004