Poetry in translation: traveling pleonasm and beyond
Style is the kernel of literariness. This study examines the translatability of pleonasm, a form of redundancy considered a standard rhetorical device in Arabic but usually avoided in Western languages. The study evaluates and compares English and French translations of a pleonastic Arabic verse l...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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| Summary: | Style is the kernel of literariness. This study examines the translatability of pleonasm, a form of redundancy
considered a standard rhetorical device in Arabic but usually avoided in Western languages. The study evaluates
and compares English and French translations of a pleonastic Arabic verse line. An acceptable translation of this
verse should provide an affective-stylistic equivalent that will capture and convey the same appeal as the source
text with a similar degree of literariness, not just a direct linguistic equivalent. This research asserts that a
translator usually works within their own translation aesthetics, developed within their cultural and disciplinary
traditions of literary and translational aesthetics and their idiosyncratic ideas about or interpretation of the
source text. |
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