Translating Titles and Subtitles in the Novel “The Tin Drum” by Gunter Grass Cover Image

Prevođenje naslova i međunaslova u romanu „Limeni doboš“ Gintera Grasa
Translating Titles and Subtitles in the Novel “The Tin Drum” by Gunter Grass

Author(s): Nikolina N. Zobenica
Subject(s): Novel, German Literature, South Slavic Languages, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: literary translation; translating the title; function of the title; context; equivalence; adequacy;

Summary/Abstract: By means of a critical analysis of translation of chapter titles and subtitles in the novel The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, the author raises the issues of translating poetic titles, with a view to pointing to the necessity of one having a solid command of the language, the piece itself, its writer, as well as its overall context in terms of literary history, literary theory, and culture, in order to deliver an adequate result.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 30-39
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian