“Tales” and “Sketches”: Speech and Narrative Genre in Translation

Authors

  • Carolina Paganine Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.25.2.175-191

Keywords:

translation with commentaries, Thomas Hardy, polyphony, genres

Abstract

In this paper, we comment on our translation of “A Few Crusted Characters” (1894), by Thomas Hardy, into Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on the multiplicity of speeches and narrative genres seen in the original text. The translation of those aspects, which are considered by Mikhail Bakhtin (2002) as fundamental constituents of literary prose, is discussed when we approach both the multiplicity of narrators in the stories, some of them showing marks of dialect, and Hardy’s insertion and subversion of different literary genres. By doing so, we intend to reflect on the role of translations with commentary within the more general outlook of translation studies, since, for Antoine Berman (2013), those aspects are one of the great challenges found in literary prose translation.

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Author Biography

Carolina Paganine, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Doutora em Estudos da Tradução pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2011), com pesquisa na área de tradução comentada de textos literários. Bacharel em Letras Tradução Inglês pela Universidade de Brasília (2004). Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Ciências da Linguagem, setor de Teorias da Tradução, na Universidade Federal Fluminense. Áreas de interesse e atuação: Estudos da Linguagem; Literaturas Estrangeiras Modernas, em especial a literatura inglesa do século XIX e a obra ficcional de Thomas Hardy; Estudos da Tradução: tradução comentada, literatura traduzida, crítica de tradução e variação linguística.

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Published

2015-12-03

How to Cite

Paganine, C. (2015). “Tales” and “Sketches”: Speech and Narrative Genre in Translation. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 25(2), 175–191. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.25.2.175-191

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2015): Tradução Comentada

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Dossiê - Tradução Comentada

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