scholarly journals The Translation History of English Classics: a Slovenian Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Darja Mazi Leskovar
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
Original Source ◽  
Chronicles Of Narnia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland ◽  
Treasure Island

This article discusses some English classics of children’s literature that have made their way into Slovenian children’s literature, become part of the national canon, and can still be bought in bookstores or borrowed in libraries. Among these rank Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and The Chronicles of Narnia. The study also examines if the authors are fully acknowledged with the title of the original source text and if the translators names are given in the colophon.

scholarly journals INTERPRETING THE READABILITY IN SIMPLIFIED EDITIONS OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FROM A THEMATIC PERSPECTIVE: A CASE STUDY ON ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Tingjia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Thematic Structure ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland ◽  
Alice’S Adventures In Wonderland

Readability formulas developed on the foundation of the structuralist approach have been proven capable of providing satisfactory indexes about the readability in most cases, but cannot explain “causes of difficulty or... how to write readably” (Klare, 1974, p. 62). This paper will explore the thematic structure under the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics as an explanation perspective for the achievement of readability in simplified editions of children’s literature. The study is based on a comparison between the original and two simplified editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in terms of Theme composition and Theme status, respectively. The two adaptations have provided explicit conjunctions and an explicit identity chain, respectively, as the major tool to assist young readers with reading. Green (1865) has foregrounded the tactic relationship between clauses by adding Textual Theme back to the clause and by revising the clausal order in complexes. Swan (1988) has omitted most Textual Themes either on purpose or along with the deletion of plots, and rewritten marked Themes into unmarked, modifying the development of text into a linear pattern and converging the clausal order in text towards that in spoken language.

scholarly journals (Re)translation Revisited

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Desmidt
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Original Source ◽  
Selma Lagerlof ◽  
Target Culture

Abstract Resulting from the wish to meet the (new, altered) requirements of the receiving culture, retranslations are exponents of the historical relativity of translation. According to the so-called retranslation hypothesis, retranslations tend to be more source culture oriented than first translations. First translations, the hypothesis runs, deviate from the original to a higher degree than subsequent, more recent translations, because first translations determine whether or not a text (and its author) is (are) going to be accepted in the target culture. One can come up with several factors that make the retranslation hypothesis, even broadened to re-rewriting hypothesis, plausible (e.g., translators take a critical stance to earlier translations, the target language has developed and target culture norms have become less rigid), but one can ask to what extent the hypothesis is supported by empirical evidence. In the following article some of the results of my study of 52 German and 18 Dutch versions of the children’s classic book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey Through Sweden, Selma Lagerlöf, 1906-1907), published between 1907-1908 and 1999, are discussed with respect to the retranslation hypothesis. It is argued that, though some more recent versions showed consideration for the original, a clash of norms ultimately did not allow the hypothesis to hold good: not allegiance to the original, but literary, pedagogical and economical norms gained the upper hand.The hypothesis clearly does not have a general value. The hypothesis may be valid to some extent, but only if it is not formulated in absolute terms. Within peripheral forms of literature, like children’s literature, as well as within classical literature, less prototypical (re)rewriting has proven to be more than the exception and target norms continue to clash with fidelity to the original source text.

scholarly journals Översättning av kraftuttryck i de franska och svenska översättningarna av Maria Parrs Keeperen og havet

Barnboken ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Axelsson ◽  
Charlotte Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
Target Languages ◽  
Object Of Study

The Translation of Foul Language in the French and Swedish Translations of Maria Parr’s Keeperen og havet The current study deals with the translation of foul language in the French and Swedish translations of Maria Parr’s Norwegian novel Keeperen og havet (Lena, the Sea, and Me, 2017). Previous research shows that children’s literature is translated differently in France and in Scandinavia. It is also well-known that parents often have an opinion on what children’s literature can contain. For this reason, we choose the two target languages in question, French and Swedish, and the specific object of study, namely foul language. Methodologically, this is a comparative case study where we compare how passages containing foul language are translated from Norwegian to French and Swedish. Parr is highly creative in her use of foul language. Our study suggests that the Swedish translator retains the coarseness of the source text, and often does so to a great extent by choosing established expressions in the target language. The French translator shows a great deal of creativity, as she uses the characteristics of the plot and the setting to find solutions that are true to the style of the source text.

scholarly journals The History of the Seven Wise Mistrisses of Rome (1663) as Children’s Literature: Textual History, Gender and Folktale Motifs

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-36
Author(s):  
Tomás Monterrey
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Reading Competence ◽  
Frame Story ◽  
Textual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Folktale Motifs ◽  
Enormous Success

This article analyses The History of the Seven Wise Mistrisses of Rome, attributed to Thomas Howard, and traditionally underrated by literary critics and historians as a mere imitation of the Seven Sages, despite its enormous success. The early parts examine the literary and editorial relationship with its source text, and Howard’s prefatory “Epistle.” The latter parts concentrate on the frame story and the fifteen exemplary tales. Special attention is drawn to the gender/feminist issues in the original extension of the frame story, and to the folktale motifs displayed in this compilation, stylistically and thematically conceived to help children improve their reading competence.

scholarly journals Cultural Norms in Translating Children’s Literature

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nouf S. Al-Fouzan
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Intended Reader ◽  
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland ◽  
Alice’S Adventures In Wonderland

The reader of a translated text is particularly important when the translation is intended for a young audience. The translation must take into account the cultural knowledge of the intended reader. This research looks at the relationships between the translator, the author, and the intended and accidental readers of the source text. It discusses the issue of the low status of children’s books, and translated children’s literature in the literary polysystem. It focuses on the resulted disagreement among translators on the appropriate translational procedure to be followed when translating works with culture specific references (foreignization vs. domestication). It is an attempt to draw the attention to the cultural norms which govern the translation of children’s literature from English into Arabic. The research also examines ‘adaptation’ as the most common translational procedure used in translating children’s works with culture specific items and references. Examples are taken from two works of children’s literature: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Tom Sawyer. The examples reveal incidents of adaptation by means of deletion, replacement and addition.

scholarly journals On Children’s Literature Translation from the Perspective of Manipulation Theory—A Case Study of the Ren Rongrong’s Chinese Translation of Charlotte’s Web

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 666
Author(s):  
Wenjia Zhou ◽  
Yuying Li
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Chinese Translation ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Meaning Equivalence ◽  
Cultural Turn

With the cultural turn in translation studies in 1970s, the focus of translation studies was gradually changed from traditional linguistics to culture. André Lefevere put forward to Manipulation Theory that has further broadened the field of translation studies. It holds that translation is not to realize the meaning equivalence between source text and target text, but to realize the compromise between the source cultural system and the target cultural system, in which the translation will be manipulated by some factors. Because Children’s Literature is classified specially, it may be influenced by different cultural system. Therefore, this paper chooses Chinese translation of Charlotte’s Web as a case study from the perspective of Manipulation Theory, which draws a conclusion that ideology, poetics and patronage have impacts on translation strategies of children’s literature, in order to facilitate new theoretical researches and improve Chinese translations of Children’s Literature.

A Confrontation between Two Doctrines: The Birth of Struggle for Hegemony in Hebrew Children's Literature during the 1930s and 1940s

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
YAEL DARR
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Literary Creation ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Level ◽  
First Time ◽  
Literary Quality

This article describes a crucial and fundamental stage in the transformation of Hebrew children's literature, during the late 1930s and 1940s, from a single channel of expression to a multi-layered polyphony of models and voices. It claims that for the first time in the history of Hebrew children's literature there took place a doctrinal confrontation between two groups of taste-makers. The article outlines the pedagogical and ideological designs of traditionalist Zionist educators, and suggests how these were challenged by a group of prominent writers of adult poetry, members of the Modernist movement. These writers, it is argued, advocated autonomous literary creation, and insisted on a high level of literary quality. Their intervention not only dramatically changed the repertoire of Hebrew children's literature, but also the rules of literary discourse. The article suggests that, through the Modernists’ polemical efforts, Hebrew children's literature was able to free itself from its position as an apparatus controlled by the political-educational system and to become a dynamic and multi-layered field.

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