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Publication details [#13197]
Buciumas, Diana. 2006. La traduction de l’adjectif composé dans The Portrait of Dorian Gray d’Oscar Wilde [The translation of compound adjectives in Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Dorian Gray]. In Vautherin, Béatrice. La traduction de l’adjectif composé: de la micro-syntaxe au fait de style [The translation of compound adjectives: from micro syntax to style]. Palimpsestes 19.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
French
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Title as subject
Abstract
Translating metaphorical adjectival compounds in Wilde’s novel implies taking into account the text as a whole and the intertextual and metatextual references which provide keys to their interpretation as they appear throughout the text. The study focusses on adjectival compounds of colour and those inspired by natural or floral elements and shows how the two French translators had to make repeated choices between the most literal repetitions and creativity.
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