Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter (review)

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-276
Author(s):  
Donald R. Hettinga
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Sticks And Stones

scholarly journals Translating children’s literature: some insights from corpus stylistics

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Čermáková
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

In this paper I explore the potential of a corpus stylistic approach to the study of literary translation. The study focuses on translation of children’s literature with its specific constrains, and illustrates with two corpus linguistic techniques: keyword and cluster analysis — specific cases of repetition. So in a broader sense the paper discusses the phenomenon of repetition in different literary (stylistic) traditions. These are illustrated by examples from two children’s classics aimed at two different age groups: the Harry Potter and the Winnie the Pooh books — and their translations into Czech. Various shifts in translation, especially in the translation of children’s literature, are often explained by the operation of so-called ‘translation universals’. Though ‘repetition’ as such does not belong to the commonly discussed set of translation universals, the stylistic norms opposing repetition seem to be a strong explanation for the translation shifts identified.  

scholarly journals Translators: Travellers, Not Tourists

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-238
Author(s):  
Veronika Rot Gabrovec
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Social

The article explores various representations of culture(s) found in contemporary English children’s literature and discusses how they were rendered into Slovene. In the first part, some introductory definitions of culture and approaches to the translation of children’s literature are presented. In the second part, excerpts from selected literary works (for instance, Mary Poppins, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Matilda, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) are examined, both from the source and the target texts, with more attention paid to the cultural contexts, and the social changes that possibly influenced the translator’s decisions.

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