Dr. Allan Turner

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Kontakt
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Recent publications

Kontakt

Sprechzeiten: siehe Tabelle

Bereich: Sprachpraxis

Anschrift:
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Raum 612
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
D-07743 Jena

Tel. +49 (0)3641 944xxx (Sekretariat)
Tel. +49 (0)3641 944565 (direkt)
Fax: +49 (0)3641 944512

Email: allan.turner@uni-jena.de

CV

Allan Turner grew up in Peterborough, England. He studied at the Universities of Reading (B.A. in German, 1972, M.Phil. in Medieval Studies, 1975), Leeds (Graduate Certificate in Education, 1975), Cambridge (M.Phil. in Linguistics, 1980) and Newcastle (Ph.D. in Translation Studies, 2003). In addition to working in secondary and further education in Britain, he has taught English language practice at the Universities of Trier (1980-84), Basel (1985-95), Greifswald (2005-7), and Marburg (2007-9).

His research interests are: the works of Tolkien, translation theory, and the language of literature. Among his personal interests are music, particularly choral music (in Basel he founded the English Seminar Choir, which is still in existence) and walking in the mountains.

Recent publications

2003 “A theoretical model for Tolkien translation criticism”, in Honegger, Thomas (ed.), Tolkien in Translation (Cormarë Series 4). Zurich and Bern: Walking Tree Publishers. 1-30.

2003 “Fronting in Tolkien’s archaising style and its translation”, in Tschichold, Cornelia (ed.), English Core Linguistics: Essays in honour of D. J. Allerton. Bern: Peter Lang. 301-321

2005 Translating Tolkien. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

2006 “Translation and Criticism: The Stylistic Mirror”, in Yearbook of English Studies Vol. 36/I. 168-176.

2006 Articles “Jewels”, “Language”, “Prose Style” and “Rhetoric” in The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, ed. Michael Drout. New York: Routledge.

2007 “The Lays of Beleriand: Epic and Romance”. Hither Shore: Interdisciplinary Journal on Modern Fantasy Literature, Vol. 3, (2006). 27-36.

2008 “Tom Bombadil: Poetry and Accretion”. In Margaret Hiley & Frank Weinreich (eds.), Tolkien’s Shorter Works. Zürich & Jena: Walking Tree Publishers, 2008.

2008 “Tom Bombadil: The Sins of his Youth”. Hither Shore: Interdisciplinary Journal on Modern Fantasy Literature 4 (2007). 119-127.

2009 “The Hobbit and Desire”. Hither Shore: Interdisciplinary Journal on Modern Fantasy Literature 5 (2008). 83-92.

As editor

2007 The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On. Zürich & Berne: Walking Tree Publishers.

Jointly authored

2004 Jones, Francis R. & Allan Turner. “Archaisation, modernisation and reference in the translation of older texts”, in Across Languages and Cultures 5/2 (159-185).