Discourse camouflage in the representation of American literature in the literary magazine “Mladá tvorba”
Discourse camouflage in the representation of American literature in the literary magazine “Mladá tvorba”
Author(s): Igor TyššSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Comparative Study of Literature, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Metatext; Paratext; Translation history; American literature; Ideology; Socialism;
Summary/Abstract: The study surveys meta- and paratexts about American literature in the Mladá tvorba magazine.Drawing on the ontological (metatexts, Popovič, 1974) and on the spatial classificationof text-derivation genres (paratexts, Genette, 1997), the study combines historical criticism(Pym, 2010) and pragmatic analysis (Verschueren, 2013) to interpret three metatext genresfrom the corpus. These include: metatextual apologetics, based on discourse mimicry; paratextualcamouflage, based on contextualization; synthetizing translation, based on imitationaland selective text derivation and quasi-metatext.
Journal: World Literature Studies
- Issue Year: 9/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 73-85
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English