Knowing and not knowing: Style, intention and the translation of a Holocaust poem

Boase-Beier, Jean (2004) Knowing and not knowing: Style, intention and the translation of a Holocaust poem. Language and Literature, 13 (1). pp. 25-35. ISSN 1461-7293

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Abstract

My aim in this article is to consider the role of the literary translator both as close reader of an original text and as creator of a new text which preserves essential characteristics of the original. Questions such as the intentions and choices of the original author will clearly play a large part in decisions on how to translate, and, using the notion of translation as interpretative use developed within relevance theory, I shall argue here that a translator cannot avoid such questions, and must use clues in the style of the poem to provide answers. As an illustration I look at a German poem about the Holocaust and consider how its central ambiguity can be rendered in English.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature and Creative Writing (former - to 2011) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:56
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 04:20
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9283
DOI:	10.1177/0963947004039485

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