Translation strategies for the hypotyposis in two Spanish-language versions of “In the Cave of the Children’s Ghosts”, by Lafcadio Hearn
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Travel literature is characterized by the use of descriptive rhetorical resources, specifically, hypotyposis. This strategy prevails in “In the Cave of the Children's Ghosts” by Lafcadio Hearn; a story on a visit to Kukedo Caves. The aim of this article is to compare segments of the text with two Spanish-language translations by José Manuel de Prada Samper and Esteve Serra, respectively, in order to find out the sort of strategies prevailing in the treatment of this rhetoric device. According to Andrew Chesterman's descriptive framework, the translation strategies are classified as syntactic, semantic or pragmatic, and their detection in the final text may hint on the translators' goals. In the case at hand, literal translation prevails, but also semantic and pragmatic strategies are resorted to in order to reproduce equivalents for the rhetoric devices of the original text or o make its context explicit.
Article Details
References
Alburquerque-García, Luis (2011), “El ‘relato de viajes’: hitos y formas en la evolución del género”, Revista de Literatura, vol. LXXIII, núm. 145, pp. 15-34.
Berman, Antoine (2009), Toward a Translation Criticism: John Donne, Kent, The Kent State University Press.
Burton, Gideon (2016), “Hypotiposis”, Silva Rhetoricae, disponible en http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/H/hypotyposis.htm
Calderone, Antonietta (2007), “‘Conversazione in Sicilia’ de E. Vittorini y sus dos traducciones españolas”, en Francisco Lafarga, Pedro Salvador Méndez Robles y Alfonso Saura Sánchez (coords.), Literatura de viajes y traducción, Granada, Comares, pp. 87-99.
Chesterman, Andrew (2016), Memes of translation: The spread of ideas in translation theory (Revised Edition), Amsterdam y Philadelphia, Benjamins Publishing Library.
De Prada Samper, José Manuel (2018) “CV”, disponible en: https://uct.academia.edu/JoseManueldePradaSamper
Fragmenta Editorial (2016) “Esteve Serra Arús”, disponible en: http://www.fragmenta.cat/ca/autors/101218
Gould, George M. (1908), Concerning Lafcadio Hearn, Londres, T. Fisher Unwin.
Hearn, Lafcadio (1976), Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Tokio, Charles E. Tuttle.
Hearn, Lafcadio (2002), En el país de los dioses. Relatos de viaje por el Japón Meiji, 1890-1904, José Manuel de Prada Samper (trad.), Barcelona, Acantilado.
Hearn, Lafcadio (2011), En la cueva de los espectros infantiles y otros relatos, Esteve Serra (trad.), Barcelona, José J. de Olañeta Editor.
Hewson, Lance (2011), An Approach to Translation Criticism. Emma and Madame Bovary in Translation, Amsterdam y Philadelphia, Benjamins Publishing Library.
Ofuji, Yutaka (1921), Lafcadio Hearn as an interpreter of Japan, tesis de maestría, California, University of Southern California.
Porras Castro, Soledad (2004), “Hombre, sociedad y cultura popular. Viajeros italianos a España en el siglo XIX”,
Garoza. Revista de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular, núm. 4, pp. 219-238.
Richie, Donald (ed.) (1997), Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan. An anthology of his writings on the country and its people, Singapur, Charles E. Tuttle.