Open AccessSubjectivity in (Re)Translation: The Case of Oscar Wilde’s Tales in Romanian
Author(s) -
Daniela Hăisan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lubelskie materiały neofilologiczne/lublin studies in modern languages and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-4580
pISSN - 0137-4699
DOI - 10.17951/lsmll.2020.44.1.39-50
Subject(s) - romanian , subjectivity , taste , linguistics , expression (computer science) , instinct , focus (optics) , literature , art , philosophy , criticism , aesthetics , psychology , epistemology , computer science , physics , neuroscience , evolutionary biology , optics , biology , programming language
Based on a corpus of nine tales by Oscar Wilde (making up the two well-known volumes: The Happy Prince and Other Stories , 1888, and A House of Pomegranates , 1891), along with nine Romanian versions of these texts, the present article aims at reflecting on the linguo-semantic expression of emotion (with a focus on subjective adjectives like little, big, poor etc.), as well as making an inventory of the compensation strategies used by translators, taking into account the fact that most Romanian versions are addressed to children, and also that translation criticism, just like translating itself, is a matter of instinct, taste, affinity, finally emotion.