title: Thomas Tranströmer’s poetic syntax and its Russian translation
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metadata.value: Chekalina, Elena
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-04T12:30:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-04T12:30:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Chekalina E. M. Thomas Tranströmer’s poetic syntax and its Russian translation. Scandinavian Philology, 2020, vol. 18, issue 2, pp. 372–393.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2020.211
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23431
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article discusses the syntactic structure of Tomas Tranströmer’s poems that
  reflects the uniqueness of his poetic worldview and the depth of philosophical meaning. Chains of homogenous parts of the sentence, mostly with conjunctionless coordination,
  are used to reflect the infinite diversity of the outer world as seen through the
  poetic vision. In these conjunctionless coordinated chains of nominal parts of the sentence
  — attributes and objects — commas are used for rythmical and expressive purposes,
  stressing the semantic significance of every component, and facilitate preserving
  the alliterative sounding of the poem. By contrast, when objects of the outer world are
  depicted with a negative value as a chaotic mass, commas between the lexemes that
  refer to them, are absent. Tranströmer’s poetic syntax is also characterized by a special
  “density” of relative clauses introduced with the conjunction som, that often expand
  on the main part in the form of a nominal sentence. They often have a complicated
  syntactic structure with “cyclic” repetition of the prop-word. Another typical feature of
  versification in Tranströmer’s works is the use of elaborate syntactic compounds which
  include various constructions — extended predicative attributes, adverbial constructions
  with the preposition med, as well as complex objects with an infinitive. A special
  function in Tranströmer’s syntactic structure is assigned to colons and hyphens. The
  use of colons makes it possible to express what is only accessible to the poet’s inner vision
  — what is hidden in the past or the future, seen in a dream, and revealing itself in
  the distant space. The use of hyphens inside sentences and between them expands the
  limits of the outer world making its image multidimensional. Translating Tranströmer
  involves the use of syntactic transformations caused by the typological differences between
  Swedish and Russian. Lexical substitutions can also be found, including the use
  of Russian words of a higher register, for example, the translation of the relative pronoun
  som ‘which’ with the conjunction что meaning ‘which’ but in a higher register
  and typical of an epic narrative, allows for the preservation of the rythmic structure of
  the original.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 18; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Swedish poetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: free verse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: syntactic structure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: punctuation marks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian translation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: syntactic transformation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lexical substitution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Thomas Tranströmer’s poetic syntax and its Russian translation
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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