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Russian Children's Poetry: Multiple Approaches to English Translation
March 9, 2:30pm - 3:30pmMānoa Campus, Moore Hall 257
Using examples from two anthologies of Russian children鈥檚 literature in English translation, this lecture explores the diverse strategies employed by contemporary translators. Translating children鈥檚 poetry requires navigating meter, rhythm, and rhyme while preserving the poem鈥檚 essential poetic nuance. Translators adopt multiple approaches to rendering cultural context, proper names, and toponyms; often poets themselves, they engage in a complex balancing act between domestication and foreignization, semantic precision and poetic form, literal equivalence and idiomatic English. But do we鈥攖ranslators and readers of poetry鈥攅ver truly know what is right and what is wrong? Translating children鈥檚 poetry offers no simple or definitive answers. Instead, this lecture invites us on a journey through poetic lines to examine the many choices, compromises, and creative solutions different translators have made.
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