Healing Translation

Éva Jeney

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume VIII. , Issue 1, 2013, p. 103-112, ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2013.8.1.103-112

Abstract:

Literature can serve a number of purposes. One of them is healing. Although it seems to be absent from mainstream literary scholarship, the healing power of literature is studied by bibliotherapy. Despite its apparent absence, this type of reading is connected to both literary theory and reception history. It is also undeniable that books and people multilingual by their very nature. However trivial it seems that books in foreign languages can be accessed in translation, the consequences of this statement are quite significant. First of all, both the therapist and the client can read literature in their mother tongue. Secondly, some of the translation theories can model even the bibliotherapic situation. Finally, translation itself can be seen as having therapeutic effects.

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Partitúra is a Hungarian literary journal published in Slovakia twice a year. The first edition was issued in 2006. From 2007 to 2014 its publishers were the Faculty of Central European Studies at The Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra in cooperation with Sambucus Literary Society. Since 2014 the Faculty of Central European Studies at the CPU in Nitra became the sole publisher.

The journal releases peer-reviewed scientific articles, literary studies and art reviews of both Hungarian as well as world literature. It is also a forum for essays on several other arts and intercultural relations. Furthermore, special attention is devoted to the Central European literature and literary studies; the magazine not only publishes the reviews of such studies, but also provides the arena for reflections about them. The journal aims to give an account of the contemporary Hungarian literature of the Hungarian minorities as well as to serve as a cluster for discourses.

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