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    Da mente do criador à mente do tradutor: tradução comentada de The mind of the maker de Dorothy L. Sayers

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    Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2014.A tradução comentada de The Mind of the Maker [A Mente do Criador] abrange, além dos comentários à tradução propriamente dita, uma pesquisa sobre a vida e obra da autora Dorothy L. Sayers sobre essa obra em particular, considerando a sua eventual contribuição para o campo dos Estudos da Tradução. Vale observar que Sayers foi tradutora, entre outras obras, de A Divina Comédia de Dante. Para viabilizar a tradução, analisamos alguns teóricos da área de Estudos da Tradução, particularmente os que versam sobre relações entre tradução e reflexão filosófica a respeito da criatividade, o tema a que damos destaque em A Mente do Criador, tais como os clássicos Walter Benjamin, Octávio Paz e Paul Ricoeur e os brasileiros Haroldo de Campos, Márcio Seligmann e Paulo Bezerra. Atentamos em especial ao que esses autores dizem sobre o papel da criatividade no processo tradutório. Foi dada atenção à teoria hermenêutica e fenomenológica de Paul Ricoeur e seus escritos sobre a tradução, a fim de desenvolver nossa estratégia própria de tradução da obra. A teologia entra de forma secundária na pesquisa, já que o tema inicial da obra traduzida é a noção de Trindade nos credos cristãos. Após o referencial teórico da tese, apresentamos alguns comentários sobre o processo tradutório e sobre alguns conceitos do livro que consideramos importantes para a compreensão da obra como um todo, procurando fazer uma aplicação das teses centrais de Dorothy L. Sayers nesse livro, particularmente aquelas relativas à criatividade, ao campo dos Estudos da Tradução. O resultado obtido foi a construção de uma possível metáfora da tradução, baseada no conceito de Trindade presente em Mente do Criador.Abstract : The translation with commentary of The Mind of the Maker covers, besides the comments on the actual translation of the work, a research on the life and work of Dorothy L. Sayers, on works and studies about her life and workmanship, and on this particular work, considering its possible contribution to the field of Translation Studies. It is worth noting that she was a translator of de Devine Comedy of Dante. To make the translation feasible, we analyze some of the theoretical areas of translation studies, particularly those that deal with relations between translation and philosophical reflection on the creativity, which is the main theme we are pointing out in The Mind of the Maker, such as the classic as Walter Benjamin, as well as Octavio Paz, and Paul Ricoeur, and the Brazilians, Haroldo de Campos, Márcio Seligmann and Paulo Bezerra. We focused on what these authors say about the role of creativity in the translation process. Special attention was also given to the phenomenological and hermeneutical theory of Paul Ricoeur, including his writings on translation, in order to develop our own strategy for the translation of the work. The theology came in, in a secondary manner, since the initial theme of the translated work is the notion of the Trinity in Christian creeds. After the theoretical part of the thesis, we present some comments on the translation process and on some concepts of the book that we consider important for the understanding of the work as a whole, trying to make an application of the central theses of Dorothy L. Sayers in this book, particularly those related to creativity, to the field of Translation Studies. The result was the construction of a possible metaphor of translation, based on the concept of the Trinity present in The Mind of the Maker

    Banquet Keynote: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Wages of Cinema

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    Awards, Recognitions, Keynote Dorothy L. Sayers and the Wages of Cinema - Crystal Downing Biographers have long assessed Sayers’s concern with the wages of sin. None, however, discuss how wages from cinema shaped her response to sin. This lecture, based on archival research at the Marion E. Wade Center in Wheaton, Illinois, offers a whole new way to think about the montage of Sayers’s life. Employing images from the history of both Sayers and cinema, it demonstrates how moving images moved Sayers, transforming her from detective fiction author to one of the most important influences on the spiritual life of C. S. Lewis

    Concurrent Paper Session 2A: The Theological Imagination of Sayers

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    \u27Christ Walks the World Again\u27: The Image of Christ in Sayers\u27s Catholic Tales - Barbara Prescott As a Christian apologist, Dorothy L. Sayers is little appreciated as religious poet. Yet in her early years, Sayers considered herself first and foremost a poet, and a large portion of this poetry was an expression of Christian romanticism in myth and legend. In her twenties, Sayers published a collection of poems in sonnet and ballad structure which reflect and interpret the heroic roles of Jesus the Christ. Within this small book, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs (1918), we are given a glimpse of those imaginative, unusual, and unfamiliar images of Jesus Christ. We are given the varied faces of Christ as a legendary folk and mythic Hero. Sources include the published version of the text, earlier manuscript of the book, as well as Dorothy L. Sayers’s notes and unpublished letters from the archives of the Marion E. Wade Center in Wheaton, IL. The First and Second Wave of Dorothy L. Sayers - Hannah Stumpf Snyder Reading Lewis Reading Sayers - Alan Snyder While Dorothy L. Sayers was not an official Inkling, she was of the same spirit, having an Oxford degree, contributing an essay to the volume commemorating Charles Williams, and carrying on a personal correspondence with C. S. Lewis. Although Lewis had no interest in detective stories, in which Sayers made her name as an author, he nevertheless developed a great love of some of her other works: The Man Born to Be King, The Mind of the Maker, and her translation of Dante, in particular. What was it about those writings and Sayers herself that Lewis appreciated? This paper will examine his perspective on Sayers via both their personal correspondence and his writings to others about her and her works. In addition, I will compare my own perspective on Sayers’s writings with Lewis’s. The Theological Aesthetics of Dorothy L. Sayers as Interpretive Key to the Fantasy Worlds of Lewis and Tolkien - Gary L. Tandy In The Mind of the Maker, Dorothy L. Sayers suggests that all artistic creations are threefold. Specifically, all creative works contain the Creative Idea (the image of the Father), the Creative Energy (the image of the Word), and the Creative Power (the image of the indwelling Spirit). Throughout her book, Sayers applies her theory to various literary artists and works, demonstrating how a Trinitarian view of the creative or faithful imagination helps explain their artistic successes or failings. I aim to explore how applying Sayers’s theory may open new avenues of understanding and appreciation for Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia and Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Among other observations, I will suggest that Sayers’s theories are especially appropriate windows into the works of fantasy writers or world builders like Lewis and Tolkien, for in their efforts to craft worlds outside our earthly experience, we can see clearly how these authors became the gods of their own creations. In the process, I also hope to demonstrate that Sayers provides a useful “theological aesthetic” for Christian readers and literary critics—the kind David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet call for in their Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice (2011)

    An Introductory Paper on Dorothy Sayers

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    Considers Sayers as the Inkling-related author who best articulates the theme of man as sub-creator. Finds this theme manifest in the Lord Peter Wimsey novels—the criminal plotting the crime and the detective re-creating it are both practicing sub-creativity—as well as more explicitly in her religious plays. Also discusses the themes of academic and intellectual honesty essential to the novel Gaudy Night. This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.

    Books, Theology, and Hens: the Correspondence and Friendship of C. S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers

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    That Lewis and Sayers had much in common and that their lives intersected in a number of interesting ways throughout their careers is common knowledge for even the casual follower of either author. What does not seem to have been appreciated or explained sufficiently in the scholarship to date is the nature of the friendship between these two influential Christian authors. Therefore, it is this friendship we wish to shed light on, using as our primary source the correspondence between Lewis and Sayers from 1942-1957. In addition, we look at what the biographers of each author have to say about their relationship

    The apologetic value of theological truth through story and pattern in the works of Dorothy L. Sayers

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    This thesis sets out to understand the theological method of Dorothy L. Sayers, a complex woman of letters. The preeminent argument is that a new and helpful paradigm for understanding Sayers' work and evaluating her contribution to Christian apologetics is her emphasis on accessing and expressing theological 'truth', through 'story' and 'pattern'. Sayers consistently explored theological truths in the context of dramatic narratives and orderly systems. The primary research methodology is to find, read and use Sayers' own letters as the principal sources to shed light on her published work. The thesis seeks to show that recognising Sayers' passion for truth, through story and pattern makes a significant contribution towards understanding her canon as a unity. The thesis differs in perspective in this regard from other Sayers scholarship, which has placed emphasis on other particular theological motifs or literary points in her career as an author. Furthermore, this thesis will differ from other theological analyses of Sayers' work in that it engages with the full diversity of genres in Sayers' canon and does so from a rigorous theological perspective rather than by taking a biographical approach. This thesis contributes to current theological understanding by bringing the work of a significant lay female Christian thinker of the twentieth century to the attention of scholarship. Sayers' work has continuing resonance for contemporary theologians who are interested in the role of narrative, drama and analogy in theology, and in the creative communication of theological ideas.</p

    Dorothy and Jack the transforming friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C.S. Lewis

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    "Author unpacks the intriguing friendship of C. S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers, examining how it pushed them both to grow in their faith and to explore new facets of their creativity"-

    The missing scene in Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body?

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    In the following article, I will expose an investigation I carried out about censorship and how it affected British Crime Fiction of the early 20th century, most particularly author Dorothy L. Sayers. This investigation arose from the discovery of a completely removed scene in the very first book of her Lord Peter Wimsey series, Whose Body? This article is divided into several sections. After the introduction, I offer some context about who Dorothy L. Sayers was and how her works were received in the Spanish market. Further on, I talk about censorship in Spain and how it worked. Lastly, I expose my investigation with a quick summary of the information available in the AGA (Archivo General de la Administración), a brief context of the missing scene and I offer a way for it to be reworked into the text with an acceptance that it was, indeed, censored

    Divine Therapy: Love, Mysticism and Psychoanalysis

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    Many debate whether religion is good for our health. Starting with this question, Janet Sayers, author of Mothering Psychoanalysis and Freudian Tales, provides a fascinating account of today's psychotherapy. Divine Therapy is told through love stories. They highlight the risks and healing transformations of what some call 'at-one-ment' with another in love, mysticism, art and psychoanalysis. Sayers movingly explores this by drawing on the philosophical and psychological writings of William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Sabina Spielrein, Simone Weil, Erich Fromm, Paul Tillich, Viktor Frankl, Melanie Klein, Adrian Stokes, Marion Milner and Donald Winnicott. She ends with one of the major figures of current psychoanalysis, Wilfred Bion, and with the insights of his followers, notably Christopher Bollas, Neville Symington and Julia Kristeva. Illustrated with love letters, pictures, biographical details and case histories, Divine Therapy tells an intriguing chronicle of science, religion and therapy that also constitutes an engaging overview for students, specialists and general readers alike
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