Find, Fand – Elefant. Elephantine Funambulism in Translating Laura E. Richards’s “Eletelephony”

Find, Fand – Elefant. Elephantine Funambulism in Translating Laura E. Richards’s “Eletelephony”

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Main Author: Tobias Larenz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2024-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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The essay elaborates seemingly minor differences between German and English on the levels of stress
phonetics
semantics and syntax with a particular focus on words that play a central role for the poetic structure. It illustrates how the high degree of similarity between the two languages precludes an approach to translation as free re-writing and forces the tran
accentuating the tottering
staggering movement that characterizes the poem. The translation radicalizes the subversion of “proper” enunciation and intensifies the morphological mushrooming that characterize the original version of the poem.
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/23066
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