Swet Columns
January 28, 2010
About Mori Ōgai on Translation
by Kay Vreeland
The American Lauren Elkin writes a literary blog in Paris and she posted on Mori Ōgai on translation and fallacy. A snippet: “Ōgai talks about the virtues of being ‘wrong’ in translation—adding or detracting from the original text; of most interest, I think, is the final section in which he contemplates how far... more
December 15, 2009
Self-Help for Editors
Reviewed by Ginny Tapley Takemori
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself). By Carol Fisher Saller. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73425-5, ISBN-10: 226-73425-0, $13.00.
The Subversive Copy Editor—what a great title! That alone was enough to make me pick up a copy right... more
December 2, 2009
SWET Open Forum 2009: Wordsmithing in Japan
by Katherine Heins
Where to go for translators’ resources, how to control your computer’s Japanese inputting settings, what an editor needs to know about word processing and other software, how to market your professional skills and carve your niche, how to get your work published, what to tell a Japanese author who wants his/her work published—these were some of the questions... more
November 21, 2009
SWET Newsletter, No. 123
October 2009
In this issue:
Features From Behind Cloistered Walls: A Tale of Two Translations • Lynne E. Riggs Remembering Jiho Sargent: Technical Writer and Buddhist Priest • Naomi Otani SWET Events A Poet's Prose: The Economy and Voice of Moving • Bonny Cassidy SWET Open Forum 2009: Wordsmithing in Japan • Katherine Heins SWET Member News Talking Poetry with Jane Joritz-Nakagawa • Leza Lowitz SWET Cyber Matters Lacunae of English,... more
October 23, 2009
eBooks and the Author
by Hugh Ashton
I’m considering all the new options by which we can now read books (i.e. the ebook reader market, which appears to be coming of age - sort of), and it seems to me that there are both technical and business issues here.
The software to convert existing material to ebooks does not seem to work at all well. For... more
September 29, 2009
Keene, Seidensticker et al.: Products of War, Commodities of Peace
Reviewed by William Wetherall
Focusing on recently published biographical works by the late Edward G. Seidensticker and Columbia University professor Donald Keene, William Wetherall evokes the personalities and the times of two great promoters of Japanese literature in the postwar era.
Wetherall’s articles on a variety of subjects are posted on the gateway to his websites.
Intrigued... more