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<p>The present article sets out to investigate the rendering of cultural elements in the process of poetry translation, an undertaking that is a strenuous one, given the constraints of form. It looks into and illustrates the many layers of Seamus Heaney’s poetry, pointing at the profusion of allusions to cultural aspects that are embedded in the texts, and that ask the translator to decide whether to “foreignize” or “domesticate” the text. These extratextual features that a translator needs to consider are imbricated with the various textual elements, generating effects that are difficult to replicate in translation, making similarity of effect all the more difficult to achieve.</p>
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The present article sets out to investigate the rendering of cultural elements in the process of poetry translation, an undertaking that is a strenuous one, given the constraints of form. It looks into and illustrates the many layers of Seamus Heaney’s poetry, pointing at the profusion of allusions to cultural aspects that are embedded in the texts, and that ask the translator to decide whether to “foreignize” or “domesticate” the text. These extratextual features that a translator needs to consider are imbricated with the various textual elements, generating effects that are difficult to replicate in translation, making similarity of effect all the more difficult to achieve.

Cultural Transfer in Translation. Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: A Case Study

East-West Cultural Passage

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The present article sets out to investigate the rendering of cultural elements in the process of poetry translation, an undertaking that is a strenuous one,...

Cultural Transfer in Translation. Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: A Case Study

Published Online: Mar 16, 2024

Page range: 95 - 115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2023-0015

Keywords
translation, cultural transfer, foreignness, equivalence of effect, Seamus Heaney, place name, the bog, sense of place

© 2023 Alexandra Mitrea, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Cultural Transfer in Translation. Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: A Case Study

Published Online: Mar 16, 2024

Page range: 95 - 115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2023-0015

Keywordstranslation, cultural transfer, foreignness, equivalence of effect, Seamus Heaney, place name, the bog, sense of place

© 2023 Alexandra Mitrea, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
translation, cultural transfer, foreignness, equivalence of effect, Seamus Heaney, place name, the bog, sense of place