BAROQUE POETRY: TRANSLATION ASPECT

AbstractThe current article primarily aims at analysing the strategies utilised by quintessential translators of F. Villon to render into Spanish the figures of diction and thought that characterise the poetry of the 14th-century author, following the classical classification proposed by Abrams (1953). A second objective is to suggest a set of guidelines on how to translate the figurative use of discourse into a given target-language text. Accordingly, this article will first provide an overview on the most relevant approaches to poetry translation, which especially concern relaying the figurative language of a source into a target-language text. Moreover, it will analyse a set of examples that best illustrate the distinctive use of rhetorical devices by Villon, and will examine the ways to better transforming them into another target language, namely Spanish. Lately, this article will propose a set of translation guidelines for both the figures of diction and thought that permeate his poetry.

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Multilevel poetry translation as a problem-solving task

Cognitive Semiotics ◽

10.1515/cogsem-2016-0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 139-147 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pedro Atã ◽

Joao Queiroz

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Multilevel System ◽

Multilevel Systems ◽

Poetry Translation ◽

Different Levels ◽

Problem Solving Task

Abstract Poems are treated by translators as hierarchical multilevel systems. Here we propose the notion of “multilevel poetry translation” to characterize such cases of poetry translation in terms of selection and rebuilding of a multilevel system of constraints across languages. Different levels of a poem correspond to different sets of components that asymmetrically constrain each other (e. g., grammar, lexicon, syntactic construction, prosody, rhythm, typography, etc.). This perspective allows a poem to be approached as a thinking-tool: an “experimental lab” which submits language to unusual conditions and provides a scenario to observe the emergence of new patterns of semiotic behaviour as a result. We describe this operation as a problem-solving task, and exemplify with Augusto de Campos’ Portuguese translation of John Donne’s poem “The Expiration.”

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Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Poetry Translation

Meta Journal des traducteurs ◽

10.7202/003356ar ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 59-66

Author(s):

Grigori M. Kružkov

Keyword(s):

Quantum Mechanics ◽

Poetry Translation

Résumé On montre qu'il est possible d'appliquer certaines théories de la physique moderne au processus traductionnel. On explique comment les lois de la conservation, la relation d'incertitude, la théorie de la relativité et les formules de Lorentz peuvent s'appliquer à la traduction poétique.

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