Fantastic Literature in Translation and the Degrees of Fear

Raluca Nicoleta Balatchi

Abstract


Our article is an analysis of the issue of translating emotions in literary texts on the basis of a corpus which consists of fragments from Maupassant’s fantastic tales translated into Romanian. By means of a comparison of the original with the translated published versions, where we apply methods specific to translation history and criticism, we follow and assess the implications of the translator’s different (subjective) strategies on the lexical and pragmatic level used in order to render the various degrees of fear in the target language.

 


Keywords


emotion; fear; fantastic literature; Guy de Maupassant; translating strategies

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2020.44.1.51-60
Date of publication: 2020-05-01 01:07:10
Date of submission: 2019-10-18 14:35:42


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