Translating for Canada, eh? (PDF version)

2022-10-13 14:41:25 | Course material or learning objects | Contributor(s): Lynne Bowker

Canadian English, Canadian French, translation, localization, translation tools, translation technologies, machine translation, corpus linguistics, bilingual concordancers, term banks, language portals

Translating Impiety: Girolamo Frachetta and the First Vernacular Commentary on Lucretius

Article | Contributor(s): James K. Coleman

This essay sheds light on an important but largely overlooked chapter in the story of the early modern reception of Lucretius’ De rerum natura: the publication, in 1589, of Girolamo Frachetta’s Breve spositione di tutta l’opera di Lucretio, the first publication to systematically explicate the...

Translating Migrations, (Re)Presenting Cultures in Transit: Licia Canton’s “The Motorcycle”

Article | Contributor(s): Luisa Marino

This essay investigates the relationship between the idea of movement and the concept of translation in Licia Canton’s short story “The Motorcycle” and in its Italian translation. The essay looks at translation both as a metaphor of negotiation and mediation that bridges two linguistic and...

Translating Sanskrit Mathematics

2023-05-18 22:31:31 | Article | Contributor(s): Satyanad Kichenassamy

A discussion of Jean Michel Delire’s Les mathématiques de l’autel védique. Le Baudhāyana Śulbasūtra et son commentaire Śulbadīpikā. Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 by Satyanad Kichenassamy Article PDF Link:...

Translating Tempests and Tremblements: Natural Disasters, News, and the Nation in Early Modern England and France

Article | Contributor(s): Sara Barker

Early modern people lived at the mercy of their surroundings. In an uncertain world, floods, storms, fires, and earthquakes could affect all levels of society across Europe. But destruction can also lead to creation. Accounts of such disasters were printed as pamphlets and then translated,...

Translation and Genettean Hypertextuality: Catherine Magdalen Evelyn, Catherine of Bologna, and English Franciscan Textual Production, 1618–40

Article | Contributor(s): Jaime Goodrich

Drawing on the ideas of Gérard Genette, this article argues for the value of reading translations as “hypertexts,” or as works grafted onto earlier texts (“hypotexts”), on the basis of the intriguing case study of The Admirable Life of the Holy Virgin S. Catharine of Bologna (1621), translated by...

Translation as Violation: A Reading of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques

Article | Contributor(s): Nancy E. Virtue

This article examines Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques, a sixteenth-century translation and adaptation of six of Bandello's Novelle into French. Pierre Boaistuau is best known for the scandal surrounding his much-criticized edition of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron, published in 1558....

Translation Theory in Renaissance France: Etienne Dolet and the Rhetorical Tradition

2023-06-20 19:33:56 | Article | Contributor(s): Glyn P. Norton

Translation Theory in Renaissance France: The Poetic Controversy

Article | Contributor(s): Glyn P. Norton

Trasmissione e rielaborazione del mito letterario di Polifemo nella lírica italiana del Seicento: Le stanze pastorali di Tommaso Stigliani

Article | Contributor(s): Ma Dolores Valencia

Travaux sur la censure et les index des livres interdits réalisés à l’Université de Sherbrooke

Article | Contributor(s): J. M. De Bujanda

L’invention de l’imprimerie au XVe siècle s’avère un puissant facteur de diffusion des idées dont se servent les autorités civiles et religieuses ainsi que le mouvement humaniste. Quand au XVIe siècle l’imprimerie devient le principal moyen de diffusion de la Réforme protestante, les...

Tre donne sole: Pavese’s Women in Search of a Modern Identity

Article | Contributor(s): Stacy Giufre

“Tre Donne Sole: Pavese’s Women in Search of a Modern Identity” analyzes the representation of women in three of Cesare Pavese’s works: “Pensieri di Dina,” La bella estate, and Tra donne sole. This article argues that the depiction of women and gender in these texts is more modern and complex...

Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications

2024-04-11 21:09:05 | Report | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/Q3J4-HA08

The Tri-Agency OA Policy is one of the single most important open access policies in Canada. How does it fit in the broader movement towards open scholarship?

Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy

2024-04-11 20:33:49 | Report | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/HKY0-FP69

In May 2018, the Government of Canada released a draft Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy for Consultation (RDM Policy). The draft policy is part of a Tri-Agency strategy for encouraging and supporting research data management (RDM), which also includes the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy...

Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management

2024-04-11 21:04:01 | Report | Contributor(s): Sarah Milligan | https://doi.org/10.25547/KXQM-S724

The Tri-Agency outlines expectations of best practice with regards to data management, and responsibilities of researchers, research communities, research institutions and research funders.

Trieste è una donna: Woman and Urban Space in Svevo's Senilità

Article | Contributor(s): Elena Coda

Troppi movimenti intorno al Pendolo di Eco!

Article | Contributor(s): Rocco Capozzi

Troubling Doubling, Exceptional Oeconomia, and Compensation in Gl’Ingannati

Article | Contributor(s): Catherine Scott Burriss

Recent studies of Gl’Ingannati have offered keen insights into its ground-breaking take on the intersection of gender confusion and erotic attraction, often locating the play’s importance in its cross-dressing heroine, Lelia. Yet this research leaves room for considerations of the whole context...

True and False Pastoral in Don Quijote

Article | Contributor(s): Stephen Rupp

Truth and Reconciliation through web design: Integrating Indigenist and Western approaches to teaching writing on a writing centre website

2025-07-10 17:49:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Theresa Bell, Caitlin Keenan, Jonathan Faerber | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1047

We explore relationality and decolonization within the context of our shared attempts to blend Indigenist (Wilson & Hughes, 2019) and Western approaches to information sharing on a redesigned writing centre website. To reflect and honour the importance of story-telling in Indigenous ways...