Posts by ellyp

ellyp

Dec 14, 2008

Essays / I need help with this text; how to analyze it critically? [4]

Thanks a lot, i can now understand what the author is trying to say and that is great, cause i didn't have a clue about the Dante's preface.But still i have to detect in this text the claims, the conclusions, the undelying assumptions and the rhetorical fallacies.Do you think this text has internal clarity & consistency; logical consistency; logical order or is it inconsistent? And if you can come up with an answer to the following question related to this text, i would be very grateful!

What alternative explanations and counterexamples can I think of?
What additional evidence might weaken or strengthen the claims?
What changes in the argument would make the reasoning more sound?

thanks,it was very kind of you to help me!

ellyp

Dec 13, 2008

Essays / I need help with this text; how to analyze it critically? [4]

hello,everyone!
How can i analyze critically the following text?please help,i need some ideas!!

There is a general idea that a translation always fails to preserve some of the qualities that distinguish the original work - i.e., that 'something always gets lost in translation.' Writers, critics, and the general reading public unthinkingly accept this clichè. But this belief is unwarranted: translators are sometimes distinguished authors themselves, and some authors may even translate their own works. As the translator pointed out in the preface to an English version of Dante's works, the violin and the piano make different sounds, but they can play what is recognizably the same piece of music.

thanks!:)