The Translatability of Poetry: Phonaesthesia, Sound Iconicity, Orchestration, and Aesthetic Function. A Case Study of Poe’s The Raven

IF 0.1 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.2478/abcsj-2022-0009

Maria-Teodora Creangă

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Abstract When asked whether all texts are translatable, Roman Jakobson answered: “yes, to a certain extent” (qtd. in Hatim and Munday 16). Poetry in particular is notoriously difficult to translate due to its complexity and intricacies of form and meaning, on the one hand, and its cultural features, on the other. Over the years, poetry translation has been the key topic in many studies and articles that pinpoint concrete issues that may assist the translator during the three main stages of the translation process: source text analysis, linguistic transfer, and target text assessment. The present article tackles the issue of the translatability of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven into Romanian in terms of sound symbolism and orchestration with reference to Emil Gulian’s and Dan Botta’s translations. It also investigates the extent to which a particular case of sound symbolism known in the literature as phonaesthesia is a cross linguistic phenomenon and the ways in which it may become a tool in the translation process, given the complexity of the phonological structure of the poem.

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诗歌的可译性:音感、声音象似性、编曲和审美功能。以爱伦·坡的《乌鸦》为例

当被问及是否所有文本都可翻译时，罗曼·雅各布森回答说:“是的，在一定程度上是可翻译的。”在哈廷和星期一。诗歌尤其难以翻译，一方面由于其形式和意义的复杂性，另一方面由于其文化特征。多年来，诗歌翻译一直是许多研究和文章的重点话题，这些研究和文章指出了在翻译过程的三个主要阶段:源文本分析、语言迁移和译文评估中可以帮助译者的具体问题。本文结合古利安和博塔的翻译，从声音象征和编曲两方面探讨了爱伦·坡的《乌鸦》在罗马尼亚语中的可译性。它还研究了在文学中被称为音觉的声音象征主义的特殊情况在多大程度上是一种跨语言现象，以及考虑到诗歌音系结构的复杂性，它可能成为翻译过程中的工具的方式。

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American, British and Canadian Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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