Andrew Schelling – Tsadra Conferences https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:40:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 Criteria for Beauty and Readability https://conference.tsadra.org/session/criteria-for-beauty-and-readability/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:18:17 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=17227 When assessing the beauty and readability of a translation one might pose the following questions: does the text come alive in the target language? Is there a distinct emotional tone that comes through in the translation? Does a chosen grammatical structure have the power to convey what we are trying to convey? How do we summon that power to our work?

In this breakout group, Amelia Hall and Andrew Schelling, colleagues at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, address these questions and discuss the importance of techniques to invoke the power of the creative act of translation. They encourage the translator to remain receptive and trust in the genius of his or her own contemporary language to deliver both beauty and readability.

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