scholarly journals Translation and the Literary Text

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-119
Author(s):  
Augusto Ponzio
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Linguistic Approach

Abstract In the present paper we shall focus on literary translation, on the question ofthe translation of “complex” or “secondary” texts, but with the intention of makinga contribution to the problem of translating non-literary, “simple,” “primary” textsas well. In other words, we shall examine the problem of text translation from asemiotic perspective. In fact, this study founds translation theory in sign theorydeveloping a semiotic-linguistic approach to the problem of translation in thedirection of so-called interpretation semiotics which also implies the semiotics ofsignificance. Translation concerns both simple and complex texts, which correspondrespectively to Mikhail Bakhtin’s primary and secondary texts. Simple texts concernnon literary discourse genres whilst complex texts the literary genres, where theformer are better understood in the light of the latter, and not vice versa. Thispaper also focuses on the concept of the literary text as a hypertext maintainingthat the hypertext is a methodics for translative practice. The relation between thetext and language understood as a modeling device is also important for anadequate theory of translation and sheds light on the question of translatability.Another central issue in this study is the relation between translation andintertextuality.

scholarly journals Style features in Chalk Door Novel

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Assist. prof. Dr. Moayad Mahdi Faisal ◽  
Assist. prof. Dr. Ahmed Heyal Jihad
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Linguistic Structure ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
Arab Culture ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
The Voice

       This research examines a distinctive narrative text (the chalk door) of a prominent writer at the level of Iraqi and Arab culture, writer (Ahmed Saadawi). This research examines that novel in the light of the stylistic linguistic approach, which relies on the linguistic structure of the literary text to study it, no doubt That fiction is one of the most appropriate literary genres for stylistic study, for the richness of the narrative text in different linguistic compositions and methods. The study included the three stylistic levels of study: morphological level, grammar level, and semantic level, surpassing level of the voice, which we cannot study in these texts. This study revealed distinctive stylistic features, which were performed by the texts of the novel, which will be disclosed in detail in the course of the research.

scholarly journals Analysing Literary Discourse: Implications for Literary Translation

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazem Lotfipour-Saedi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Special Effect ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Textual Strategies

Abstract This paper will attempt to look at the notion of translation equivalence in literary discourse. Literature is usually distinguished from non-literature in terms of the special effect it creates on the reader. The paper will try to characterize this “special effect” in terms of special discoursal and textual strategies employed in literary text. It will then examine ways of rendering such strategies in the translation process drawing implications for the issue of translatability in literature.

scholarly journals An emergent sense of the literary: Doing children’s poetry translation in the literature classroom

2019 ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clementine Beauvais
Keyword(s):  
Writing Process ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Children's Poetry

This article brings together findings from translation theory, the poetics of children’s poetry, and the pedagogy of translation, in an attempt to theorise the practice of poetry-translation in the literary classroom. I argue that translating children’s poetry in the context of translation workshops mobilises skills, and encourages ways of thinking about poetry, that espouse particularly well one of the complex challenges of literary education: namely, triggering in learners an emergent sense of the literary. Poetry-translation, I contend, allows for profoundly experiential engagement with some of the most sophisticated, and least easily articulated, aspects of the aesthetics of literature – prominently, the resistance of the literary text to paraphrase, the lack of a clear content-form dichotomy, and the embodied aspects of the literary encounter. Because translating is never just writing, but always already writing one’s reading, the translation of poetry in the literary classroom requires pupils to capture, experience, and take ownership of their encounters with literature, in order to re-express them. I first explain the practice of literary translation in the classroom; I then talk about contemporary poetry translation theory and its deeply phenomenological approach to text. I next show why the particular poetics of children’s poetry situate that kind of text ideally for a pre-semantic, intuitive approach to poetry translation. Finally, I look at the writing process as a way of turning the pupil into what Roland Barthes calls a poéticien, a person whose poetry-writing does theoretical work. Key words: children’s poetry, translation, literary education, aesthetics

scholarly journals Style features in Chalk Door Novel

2018 ◽  
Vol 226 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Assist. prof. Dr. Moayad Mahdi Faisal ◽  
Assist. prof. Dr. Ahmed Heyal Jihad
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Linguistic Structure ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
Arab Culture ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
The Voice

       This research examines a distinctive narrative text (the chalk door) of a prominent writer at the level of Iraqi and Arab culture, writer (Ahmed Saadawi). This research examines that novel in the light of the stylistic linguistic approach, which relies on the linguistic structure of the literary text to study it, no doubt That fiction is one of the most appropriate literary genres for stylistic study, for the richness of the narrative text in different linguistic compositions and methods. The study included the three stylistic levels of study: morphological level, grammar level, and semantic level, surpassing level of the voice, which we cannot study in these texts. This study revealed distinctive stylistic features, which were performed by the texts of the novel, which will be disclosed in detail in the course of the research.

Argumentation-based literary translation quality assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Kharmandar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Translated Literature

This study correlates argumentation, translation, and literature to construct a new model for assessing the quality of translated literature. Literary translation is described as being compatible with the rhetorical stream of argumentation studies, while the study rests on the overriding notion of ethics of difference in argumentative cross-cultural and translational encounters. The model incorporates ethics of difference and interpretive act, pragma-dialectical contributions of scheme/structure and rhetorical/dialectical situations, and aesthetic features including figures of speech and (sub)genres of literature. Application of the model to an English translation of a classical poem (a Rumi’s allegory) shows that the model can be systematically applied to quality assessment of translated literature (and literary genres e.g. plays, novels, audiovisual/cinematic products, etc.). Considering the implications and suggestions for further research, the study can progressively develop into a literary or cross-linguistic subgenre of argumentation theory, with implications for comparative literature, philosophy of meaning, translation theory, and dialectical hermeneutics.

scholarly journals The Disappearing Medium: Remarks on Language in Translation

2011 ◽  
pp. 165-179
Author(s):  
George Varsos
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Recent Criticism ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
German Romanticism ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Language And Culture

This essay discusses problems pertaining to the disappearance of the language of the original text in the case of literary translation. After a reminder of recent criticism directed against ethnocentric translation strategies, the question is raised of the theoretical promises of alternative strategies. The text examines the different ways in which the relations between language and culture are theorized, taking two lines of inquiry that have strongly infl uenced contemporary translation theory: that of German Romanticism and that of Walter Benjamin.

scholarly journals Dialogism of translation in comparative dimension. Review of Viktoriia Prykhodko's monograph «Reception and interpretation of literary text in foreign language discourse: comparative dimension» (Lutsk, 2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 92-95
Author(s):  
Nataliia Horodniuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Additional Source ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
Source Of Information

The relevance of the monograph is determined, first of all, by the fact that contemporary national literatures are increasingly interacting with each other through translation, and thus the need to consider translated works in comparison with the originals is increasing. Studying the features and patterns of the literary translation is an important area of modern comparative studies. The work focuses on ways of preserving the national and cultural component of the translated text. The works of M. Gogol, Lesia Ukrainka, I. Franko, F. Dostoievskyi, R. Kipling, and J. Conrad were analyzed according to this aspect. A comparative idea of a dialogue is proposed. It is noted that translation is a broad dialogic process between the author and the reader through the interpreter, which includes reception and interpretation. Literary translation is interpreted as the basis for establishing a dialogue between the text and the interpreter, as an expression of the meaning that flows through the prism of the translating consciousness and enriches it, as a co-creation of the writer and interpreter, the purpose of which is mutual understanding, and the result of this understanding is the text-translation. Attention is paid to the issue of intertextuality as a translation problem. Despite the understanding of intertextuality as the interaction between the texts by different authors (text in text) and the interrelation between different works of one author, the thesis proposes to expand the scope of interpretation of this term, adding to it also different interpretations of one work in the same language. In the monograph the problem of reception and interpretation of literary text is considered in the imagological aspect. In particular, the study of reception and interpretation of other national character in a foreign language discourse plays an important role. Foreign language reception and interpretation of laughter culture in general and «Gogol laughter» in particular are thoroughly investigated. A deep analysis of the works of M. Gogol and F. Dostoevsky made it possible to conclude that the carnival colour of Gogol's «pure, folk-festive» laughter and the parody and comic intonation of F. Dostoevsky during translation give rise to certain problems of preserving their identity. It is noted that the perception of colour in a literary work is a peculiar way of interpreting it, and the semantic nuances of colour markings in one language or another require the problem of the reception adequacy and the interpretation of colour when translating from language to language. The practical importance of the monograph is determined by the possibility of using its basic provisions and results as an additional source of information for further comprehension of the translational paradigm in the comparative dimension.

Antireflective tendencies of the information age as a trigger of conceptual flattening in the practice of literary translation

2021 ◽  
Vol IX(257) (75) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
E. Yu. Dubenko
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Distinctive Features

The article deals with the phenomenon of clip thinking which is characterized by a number of distinctive features that exercise a considerable influence on the perception of a literary text and its interpretation by the translator. The translational decisions that are the consequence of such antireflective tendencies have been analyzed on the basis of the translation versions of the titles of literary and cinematographic texts as those stylistically relevant elements which condition the conceptual expectations of the target audience and its overall impression about a novel or a film

Zu Geschichte, Theorie und Praxis der Bühnenübersetzung. Am Beispiel von Corneilles Komodie "Le Menteur"

2018 ◽  
pp. 367-398
Author(s):  
Rainer Kohlmayer
Keyword(s):  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
English Version ◽  
Suspension Of Disbelief ◽  
Verse Form ◽  
Theorie Und Praxis

After a brief summary of Herder’s enormous influence on literary translation in Germany (translation restores the specific orality of the original text) the essay points out five fundamental criteria that obtain when translating for the stage: Orality, Individual speech of dramatis personae, Relations between persons (as subtext), Necessity of immediate audience comprehensibility (as opposed to the readers’ situation), Theatricality / Fictionality with its typical „suspension of disbelief ” (Coleridge). These criteria are then applied to Pierre Corneille’s comedy Le menteur, written in Alexandrines, the characteristic verse form of French classicism. The original version of 1643 is compared to the verse translations by Goethe (1767), Bing (1875), Schiebelhuth (1954), Kohlmayer (2005), with a side glance at Ranjit Bolt’s English version of 1989. The ease with which young Goethe renders the classicist form of the original into colloquial German is contrasted by Schiebelhuth’s stilted ‚foreignizing’ of the text. The explanation offered is the (fatal) influence of Schleiermacher’s well-known translation theory of 1813, with its categorical preference of foreignizing, in contrast to domesticating (in Venuti’s terminology).

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