Dreaming the Original: Original and Translation as Two Different Fictional Worlds

KAMENICKÁ, Renata. Dreaming the Original: Original and Translation as Two Different Fictional Worlds. In VRÁNKOVÁ, Kamila and Christopher KOY. Dream, Imagination and Reality in Literature. První vydání. České Budějovice: University of South Bohemia, 2007, p. 15-21, 152 pp. ISBN 978-80-7394-006-5.

Basic information

• Original name: Dreaming the Original: Original and Translation as Two Different Fictional Worlds
• Name in Czech: Sen o originálu: originál a překlad jako dva odlišné fikční světy
• Authors: KAMENICKÁ, Renata (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: První vydání. České Budějovice, Dream, Imagination and Reality in Literature, p. 15-21, 152 pp. 2007.
• Publisher: University of South Bohemia

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/07:00050880
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-80-7394-006-5
• Keywords in English: translation; literary; fictional worlds; explicitation; language matafunctions; Halliday
• Tags: Reviewed

Abstract

The paper explores the potential of using theory of fictional worlds for analysis of explicitation in literary translation with a view to studying the translator’s style on the example of The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers and its Czech translation by Jarmila Fastrová from 1969. The structurings of the intensional function in the original and in the translation are compared for the naming function, the authentication function and the saturation function (Doležel, 1998). The latter is explored through application of Hallidayian language metafunctions (Halliday, 1973, 1978, 1989) to provide an explicitation profile of the translator.