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BRENNU-NJÁLS SAGA, Foreignizing Translation, Icelandic Sagas, Medieval Scandinavia, Old Norse literature and culture, Scandinavian Studies, Translation Studies
BRENNU-NJÁLS SAGA: PROJETO TRADUTÓRIO E TRADUÇÃO PARA O PORTUGUÊS
Théo de Borba Moosburger
PhD Thesis, UFSC, Brazil, 2014.
The thesis contains the complete translation into Portuguese of Brennu-Njáls saga (Njal’s saga), an anonymous Icelandic work from the second half of the 13th century and considered to be the most important of the sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) and one of the landmarks of Medieval Scandinavian Literature. It beggins with a general presentation of the work and its literary context, pointing out some relevant aspects of its modern reception, and then proposes a foreignizing translation, making use of Lawrence Venuti’s and Antoine Berman’s ideas. This translation aims, through the choice of the source-text and translation strategies, to deviate from some observable tendencies in the reception context for the translation. Thus, the translation employs the notion of “horizon of expectation” formulated by Hans Robert Jauss. It also suggests that a translator, besides being a mediator between languages and cultures, is also an author whose work involves creative and intuitive elements. The exposition of the translation project aims to manifest the translator’s position and the translator’s horizon, pointing out the critical responsibility involved in the act of translating. Foreignizing translation is here defined as a translation that deviates from current preconceptions about the source-culture and the source-literature within the reception context, so that the tactics of the foreignizing translation may be seen as a critical action in the reception of a foreign literature.
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