title: The elusive meanings of translation: J. de Nerval’s sonnet “El Desdichado” from the “Chimeras” cycle
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metadata.value: Dmitrieva, Ekaterina E.
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metadata.value: 2023-12-19T16:08:19Z
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metadata.value: 2023-12-19T16:08:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Dmitrieva E. E. The elusive meanings of translation: J. de Nerval’s sonnet “El Desdichado” from the “Chimeras” cycle. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (3): 481–494. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.305 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44521
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metadata.value: The study of the inversion of meaning, which inevitably occurs during translation, has become
  one of the priorities of both domestic and world comparative studies in recent decades. This
  problem formed the basis of the theory of cultural transfer, which began to be developed in the
  mid-1980s among French historians-Germanists. The methodology of cultural transfer, which
  has taught us to see the phenomenon rather positive in those transformations of meaning
  that occur during direct translation from one language to another, has retouched the question
  of the “archaeological” side of this phenomenon, which has long received the designation
  “reverse translation” in science. The article is devoted to the analysis of the first sonnet in
  Nerval’s poetic cycle “Chimeras”. A detailed analysis of the intertextual allusions concealed by
  the extremely hermetic sonnet “El Desdichado” is accompanied by a parallel analysis of two
  translations of this sonnet into Russian, made respectively by N. Ya. Rykova and Y. M. Denisov.
  Despite the high quality of translation, the method of “slow reading” of the sonnet shows
  how in the translation, even if seemingly close to the original, the semantic trajectories of the
  original and translated texts diverge. Such a comparative analysis allows us to reactualise Alexander
  Mikhailov’s 1990s idea of reverse translation, which turns out to be absolutely necessary
  when reading and perceiving especially translated poetry.
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metadata.value: This study was carried out at A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of
  Sciences with a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 23-18-00375 “Russian Literature: the
  Problem of Multilingualism and Reverse Translation”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gérard de Nerval
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metadata.value: “Chimeras”
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “El Desdichado”
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: slow reading method
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural transfer
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The elusive meanings of translation: J. de Nerval’s sonnet “El Desdichado” from the “Chimeras” cycle
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metadata.value: Article
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