Proposta di traduzione di una selezione di «Kolumnen» di Harald Martenstein

Il presente elaborato contiene una proposta di traduzione dal tedesco di sei «Kolumnen» (rubriche giornalistiche) del giornalista e scrittore tedesco Harald Martenstein, capaci di offrire spunti di riflessione su temi attuali legati alla cultura tedesca, e non solo, anche a un potenziale pubblico italiano. Inoltre presenta un’ampia riflessione sulle tecniche di traduzione dell’ironia, caratteristica inconfondibile dell’autore, e dei «realia», termini culturo-specifici riferiti alla cultura tedesca.

Norges historie indtil Harald Haarfager, tilligemed en udførlig fremstilling af nordmændenes gamle kulturforhold /

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Laerebog i matematisk analyse af Harald Bohr og Johannes Mollerup.

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Magnus den Godes, Harald Haardraades og hans sønners sagaer;

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Die Sprache des Wahnsinns. Harald Kaas und sein Erzählband ‘Uhren und Meere’:Harald Kaas and his short story collection 'watches and seas'

This essay examines the only book published by the late Harald Kaas. His collection of short stories Uhren und Meere (1979), dealing with depictions of psycho-pathological states of mind, gained Kaas a short-lived notoriety as he himself was a certified schizophrenic possessing first-hand experience of psychiatric treatment. This essay sets out to investigate whether or to what extent the stories in Uhren und Meere can be understood as a document of the language of madness. It concludes that despite the biographical dimension of his schizophrenic experience, Kaas’s texts fail to voice an as it were unadulterated language of madness. However, when read in conjunction with his quasi-poetological interview statements, it is possible to determine the very nature of madness as a collapse of a logical system of language. Meaning that language cannot actively be used to express madness, while at the same time madness can express itself in a language that we necessarily fail to understand. The language of madness manifests itself as the madness of language.

Book review : Indigenous peoples : self-determination knowledge indigeneity

This is a book review of Indigenous Peoples: Self-Determination Knowledge Indigeneity. Edited by Henry Minde in collaboration with Harald Gaski, Svein Jentoft and Georges Midre. Published by Eburon Academic Publishers in Delft, the Netherlands. Paperback, 382 pages, no index. AUD. $79.99. ISBN 978-90-5972-204-0.