Ambiguity and the Uncanny in Henry James’s "The Turn of the Screw" and Its Polish Translations

Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw poses an interpretative challenge to its researchers, readers, and translators. The unique character of the novelette, which is surrounded by the aura of the uncanny, is closely related to the ambiguous narrative and linguistic devices used by the author. Major i...

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Autor principal:	Bartosz Sowiński
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Lenguaje:	EN FR PL
Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2017
Materias:	ambiguity uncanny interpretation Translating and interpreting P306-310
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:813361938d12479585120686b980916c2021-11-27T13:05:56ZAmbiguity and the Uncanny in Henry James’s "The Turn of the Screw" and Its Polish Translations10.12797/MOaP.23.2017.35.031689-91212391-6745https://doaj.org/article/813361938d12479585120686b980916c2017-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/moap/article/view/478https://doaj.org/toc/1689-9121https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6745 Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw poses an interpretative challenge to its researchers, readers, and translators. The unique character of the novelette, which is surrounded by the aura of the uncanny, is closely related to the ambiguous narrative and linguistic devices used by the author. Major interpretations of the text followed Gothic, Freudian, and metanarrative approaches. The paper sets out to investigate the extent to which the translations proposed by Witold Pospieszała and Jacek Dehnel adhere to any these approaches and whether and how they try to deal with the ambiguities that make James’s masterpiece so uncanny. Bartosz SowińskiKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleambiguityuncannyinterpretationTranslating and interpretingP306-310ENFRPLMiędzy Oryginałem a Przekładem, Vol 23, Iss 1 (35) (2017)
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description	Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw poses an interpretative challenge to its researchers, readers, and translators. The unique character of the novelette, which is surrounded by the aura of the uncanny, is closely related to the ambiguous narrative and linguistic devices used by the author. Major interpretations of the text followed Gothic, Freudian, and metanarrative approaches. The paper sets out to investigate the extent to which the translations proposed by Witold Pospieszała and Jacek Dehnel adhere to any these approaches and whether and how they try to deal with the ambiguities that make James’s masterpiece so uncanny.
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title	Ambiguity and the Uncanny in Henry James’s "The Turn of the Screw" and Its Polish Translations
title_short	Ambiguity and the Uncanny in Henry James’s "The Turn of the Screw" and Its Polish Translations
title_full	Ambiguity and the Uncanny in Henry James’s "The Turn of the Screw" and Its Polish Translations
title_fullStr	Ambiguity and the Uncanny in Henry James’s "The Turn of the Screw" and Its Polish Translations
title_full_unstemmed	Ambiguity and the Uncanny in Henry James’s "The Turn of the Screw" and Its Polish Translations
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Ambiguity and the Uncanny in Henry James’s "The Turn of the Screw" and Its Polish Translations

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