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Uchayeva E. M. N.V. Gogol’s Novel «The Overcoat» in the English-language Perception: the Issue of the Literary Work Translation Equivalence. Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2011, vol. 11, iss. 1, pp. 54-63. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2011-11-1-54-63

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Literary criticism

UDC:

921.161.1.09 + 929 Гоголь

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Russian

N.V. Gogol’s Novel «The Overcoat» in the English-language Perception: the Issue of the Literary Work Translation Equivalence

Six English-language translations of N.V. Gogol’s novel «The Overcoat» are analyzed in the article; special emphasis is placed on the lexical, syntactic and stylistics text characteristics, on the presence of the colloquialisms, historical vocabulary, idioms, puns, and author’s neologisms; the approaches of both Russian and English-speaking researchers to the concept of «translation equivalence», its essence and qualities are defined.

Authors:

Uchayeva

Ekaterina

M.

,

Saratov State University

,

Russia, 410012, Saratov, Astrakhanskaya street, 83

,

e-and-e@yandex.ru

Key words:

literary translation, translation equivalence, comparative analysis, the Russian literature, Gogol’s stylistics, author’s individual narrative, national flavour; syntactic, image-bearing, language translational systems

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2011-11-1-54-63

Literature

Гоголь Н. Полн. собр. соч.: в 14 т. М.; Л., 1937–1952. Т.3. С. 147.
Gogol N. The Overcoat and Other Short Stories. Dover Publications, Inc. N.Y., 1992. Р. 83.
Gogol N. The Mantle and Other Stories. Freeport, N.Y., 1971. Р.28.
Gogol N. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Classics, 1972. Р. 146.
Gogol N. The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories. Signet Classics, 2005. Р. 72–73.
Gogol N. Plays and Petersburg Tales. Oxford, 1995. Р. 120.
Gogol N. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol. Vintage Classics, 1998. Р. 399.

Journal issue:

Izv. Saratov Univ. (N.S.), Ser. Philology. Journalism. 2011. Vol. 11, iss. 1,

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