From Mimetic Translation to Artistic Transduction - A Semiotic Perspective on Virginia Woolf, Hector Berlioz, Bertolt

Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.

List of contents

1.Forked Tongues: Theory from Translation to Transduction; Exploring New Avenues of Translation; Jakobson's Concept of Poetry in Translation; From Translation to Transduction; Sebeok's Transduction; 2. Wave after Wave: Wagner's Waves Eclipsed by Virginia Woolf; Play Within Play; Three Waves; Wagner's Water Music; Virginia Woolf's Brain Waves; 3. War and Love: The Parabolic Retranslation in Berlioz's Opera; Berlioz's Poetical Drama; Olympic Odyssey; Hunt and Storm; 4. The Threepenny Opera: Jakobson's Poetics Retranslated in the Spirit of Brecht's Work-Plays; New Tongues for Brecht's Language; Brecht Juggling with Gay's The Beggar's Opera; From Speech to Criminal Slang; Epic Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Dinda L. Gorlée works as a general linguist at the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen.

Product details

• Authors: Dinda Gorlee, Dinda Gorlée
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781839989087
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-908-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Anthem symploke Studies in Theory; Anthem Symploke Studies in The
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Roman Jakobson, Performance Art, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Poetry