Perspective Chapter: Difficulties for Translating Quevedo’s Sonnets from Portuguese Translations into English
The aim of this chapter is a discussion about the criteria used on the translation of Brazilian Portuguese poetry into American English. I thus exemplify it with the translations of Quevedo’s sonnets, namely the sonnet “Desde a torre,” “From the tower.” As one goes through Quevedo’s sonnets, one can...
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| Language: | English |
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2023
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| Online Access: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/85685 |
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| Summary: | The aim of this chapter is a discussion about the criteria used on the translation of Brazilian Portuguese poetry into American English. I thus exemplify it with the translations of Quevedo’s sonnets, namely the sonnet “Desde a torre,” “From the tower.” As one goes through Quevedo’s sonnets, one can notice the recurrence of the semantic fields “fire” and “prison.” The first appears until fatigue in the opposites game within the Petrarquean pairs tradition like fire/snow~water. In order to enjoy the multiple readings that Quevedo offers, it is necessary to delve into the disappointments of which he was a victim and the seventeenth-century Spain collapse, a tumultuous scene of the Baroque: Spain was ravaged by the Thirty Years’ War and defeated by Holland and France. I based the criteria upon translation theories, more specifically upon poetic translation. I describe in detail the genre sonnet, particularly its metrics and rhymes, and the difficulties of translating them. I end the chapter with a microanalysis of the poem “Desde a torre” translation into American English. |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-83768-465-6 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.109699 |