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This paper focusses On the discussion of the preservation of expressive aspects in translation., Considerations are grounded on the HJELMSLEVian concepts of the isomorphy between the planes of content and expression, which are both constituted by-substance and form. The present study intends to show that the connotative equivalence of a text can only be achieved in the target language when attention is paid to both the formal-stylistic and the textual-normative dimensions. This involves the appropriation of the stylistic values of the linguistic expression in the source language and, mainly, the understanding of the tropes and the relationships between them. Thus, the present study draws on discourse analysis, comprehending "enunciation" theories and the rhetorical and pragmatic considerations on the level of expression. Considering that the literary text is privileged in providing stylistically marked choices, it is important to highlight the phonetic and semantic correspondences, that is, the close relationship between sound and meaning, which harbours one of the major difficulties in translation. The theory is applied to "Os Sertões" (English translation: "Rebellion on the Backlands") by Euclides da Cunha.
A tradução de Samuel Putnam de "Os Sertões" : "Rebellion in the Backlands" de Euclides da Cunha
(1997)
The present paper looks at certain aspects of Samuel Putnam's translation of Euclides da Cunha's "Os Sertões", "Rebellion in the Backlands". Of great importance is the fact that "Os Sertões", usually seen as a work of literature in Brazil, is seen more as a factual narrative in English, and placed by its publisher, the University of Chicago Press, in the Literature/History section. Putnam also adds a large number of footnotes to those of Euclides de Cunha. Also of interest is the fact that Putnam, translating just when the US was entering the Second World War, goes to great lengths in his preface to emphasize how close "Os Sertões" is to the American experience of division in both the Civil War and the entrance of the US into the Second World War.
This paper discusses the question of how Translation Theory and German Philology can be helpful to each other. It starts with some general observations on the history of the German Language with special emphasis on Middle High German. In the second part, a Middle High German Poem is translated into Portuguese.
Stefan Zweig was the only important German writer who chose Brazil for his exile in the 1940s. Before he committed suicide in Brazil, he wrote the frequently cited and more frequently criticized book in which Brazil is called the land of the future. But in Brazil he also finished another book, 'Die Welt von Gestern', a book of memories, an account of the world from which Zweig came, a work of historic, cultural and political relevance, which was immediately published in Spanish (Argentine) and Portuguese (Brazilian) translations. When compared with the German original, these translations contain significant cuts and modifications, which can be understood as interventions of some kind of censorship, and which are prejudicial to the political brisance of the book.
Die poetische Evokation von Strömen und Flüssen, die als Verkehrswege verschiedene Länder und Sprachgemeinschaften untereinander verbinden, erinnert an die poetische Utopie grenzüberschreitend-universaler Kommunikation. Dem Bildfeld um Wasserläufe und Wasserwege affin ist das Bild der Quelle, die zudem für Ursprünglichkeit, Lebendigkeit, Erneuerung steht. Insofern enthält bereits der Titel des (im folgenden vorzustellenden) poetischen Projekts, mit dem Schuldt und Robert Kelly an Hölderlin anknüpfen, in nuce ein poetisch-utopisches Programm. Zudem fällt der Name eines Flusses, der einem Vielvölkerstaat seinen Namen gab: "Am Quell der Donau / Unquell the dawn now" […]. Mit dem zweiten Teil des Titels, der sich als klang-analoge, wenngleich semantisch inäquivalente Übersetzung des ersten versteht ("Unquell the dawn now"), kommt zugleich die nicht minder symbolträchtige Übergangszeit der Dämmerung ins Spiel – einer von vielen merkwürdigen sprachklanglich bedingten Zufällen, deren Erkundung sich dieses Projekt verschreibt. Schon der bilinguale Titel vollzieht eine Grenzüberschreitung – nicht nur zwischen der deutschen und der englischen Sprache, sondern auch zwischen 'Eigenem' und 'Fremdem'. Denn der erste (deutsche) Teil ist Zitat. Friedrich Hölderlin, der in seinem lyrischen Werk die Ströme Europas besungen und dabei eine komplexe symbolische Topographie entfaltet hat […], liefert die "Quelle", von der aus der bilinguale Sprach-Fluß seinen Ausgang nimmt.