«FROM LIVING SCENES, THESE PALLIED NOTES...»: ON ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF «EUGENE ONEGIN» BY A.PUSHKIN

Authors

  • N.M. Nesterova Пермский национальный исследовательский политехнический университет

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Keywords:

translation, untranslatability, translation method, foreignization, domestication, verse translation, prose translation

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the "untranslatability" of A.S. Pushkin's novel in verse "Eugene Onegin» and to the reasons causing this untranslatability. The article focuses on the history of translation of Pushkin's work into English which counts about 40 English-language versions of «Eugene Onegin». Two different methods of translation, known in the translation studies as foreignization and domestication, as well as the verse and prose translations of Pushkin's text are considered.

Author Biography

  • N.M. Nesterova, Пермский национальный исследовательский политехнический университет
    доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры иностранных языков, лингвистики и перевода, Пермский национальный исследовательский политехнический университет, 614990, г. Пермь, Комсомольский пр., 29; e-mail: nest-nat@yandex.ru

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Published

2015-02-18

Issue

No. 4 (2014)

Section

Research: theory and experiment

How to Cite

Nesterova, N. . (2015). «FROM LIVING SCENES, THESE PALLIED NOTES...»: ON ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF «EUGENE ONEGIN» BY A.PUSHKIN. Perm Federal Research Centre Journal, 4, 26-35. https://journal.permsc.ru/index.php/pscj/article/view/PSCJ2014n4p4