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What is the point of translation? (Think about what goal you want to achieve, what, linguistically speaking that might entail? To what extent must you take into account who you are translating for or what you are translating from?)
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Are there any genres that are particularly hard to translate? What does that tell us about the nature of those types of work? Is every translation a 'betrayal' of the original?
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What is the difference between poetry and prose?
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What is the difference between literature and non-literature? (Does our attitude to language change when dealing with literature? Or when dealing with poetry in particular?)
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What makes a work of art political?
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To what extent does language shape or even dictate our world view? (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis)
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When reading a literary work from the past, should one always try imagine what a reader of the time would have understood?
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Is there objective meaning in literature?
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How does one's response to a poem differ from one's response to a painting?
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What is the difference between a novel and a short story?
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Reading a play is always inferior to watching it on stage. Do you agree?
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