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TRANSFORMING AND ADAPTING WHEN TRANSLATING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
TRANSFORMING AND ADAPTING WHEN TRANSLATING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Author(s): Mădălina Pantea
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: translation; children; literature; target text; source text;

Summary/Abstract: In the last fifty years, everything related to children’s literature has changed. Even the scholarship that deals with it has suffered several changes. When it comes to translating children’s literature, the mechanical part gets lost and makes room for the whole situations. This paper focuses on explaining why translators have to pay attention to the intentions of the readers of the book in translation, in this case, children’s literature.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 219-223
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English