Hermeneutics, Retranslation and Paratext: a Case Study of Seamus Heaney’s Preface to His Retranslation of „Beowulf”

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.19.4.02

Mohamed Saki

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Abstract

This paper sets to analyse the hermeneutical process of highlighting at work in the preface written by the North Irish poet Seamus Heaney to his retranslations of Beowulf (1999). My analysis takes into account the generic identity of the preface by considering it as a textual subgenre where the translator becomes a metatranslator to voice herself out of invisibility, engages in a (self-reflexive) hermeneutical analysis and “justification” by commenting on the choice of the translated work and their translation choices. The analysis is carried out with the help of two concepts elaborated by Gadamer: situatedness and self-understanding to show how Seamus Heaney fuses different horizons in the process of his retranslation.

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解释学、重新翻译与意译——以希尼《贝奥武夫》重新翻译序言为例

本文分析了北爱尔兰诗人谢默斯·希尼（Seamus Heaney）为其《贝奥武夫》（Beowulf，1999）的重译所写的序言中强调工作的解释学过程。我的分析考虑到了序言的一般性身份，将其视为一个文本亚类，译者成为一个元译者，通过评论翻译作品的选择及其翻译选择来表达自己的声音，进行（自我反射的）解释学分析和“辩护”。本文借助伽达默尔阐述的两个概念：情境性和自我理解来分析希尼在重译过程中如何融合不同的视野。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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