| Title: | The challenges of translating metaphors in Slovene retranslation of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories |
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| Authors: | ID Kaloh Vid, Natalia (Author)
ID Kojc, Agnes (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://journals.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/issue/view/1503/1188
 RAZ_Kaloh_Vid_Natalia_2025.pdf (555,14 KB)
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https://doi.org/10.4312/an.58.1.37-51
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Scientific work |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | The article focuses on translations of metaphors, a unique aesthetic and poetic figure that requires special attention and accurate rendering in a literary translation. When translating metaphors, the translator should understand and preserve the meaning and the aesthetic component of the metaphors. The study discusses the rendering of metaphors in translations and re-translations of three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe: “The Gold Bug,” translated by Boris Rihteršič in 1935, and Jože Udovič in 1960; “The Pit and the Pendulum,” translated by Rihteršič in 1935 and by Udovič in 1972, and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” translated by Zoran Jerin and Igor Šentjurc (1952), and by Udovič in 1972. In gothic fiction, Poe established himself as a master of metaphors, which he used with astonishing fluency and precision. The results of the analysis demonstrate how and in which way Slovene translators rendered metaphors in the short stories of one of the greatest writers of gothic fiction, and what strategies they used to preserve Poe’s unique, dark, and delirious metaphorical style. |
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| Keywords: | American literature, metaphor, translation strategies, retranslations, short stories |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 28.05.2025 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 37-51 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 58, št. 1 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-94812  |
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| UDC: | 81'255.4'373.612.2:821.111(73).09-32Poe E.A.=163.6 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0567-784X |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 238134275 |
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| DOI: | 10.4312/an.58.1.37-51 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 29.08.2025 |
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| Views: | 130 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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