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Article published In: Voice in Retranslation
Edited by Cecilia Alvstad and Alexandra Assis Rosa
[Target 27:1] 2015
► pp. 58–74

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A character’s and (re)translators’ voices in six Finnish retranslations of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

 | University of Helsinki
Published online: 9 February 2015
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This article is based on a case study of intra- and extratextual voices in six different Finnish retranslations of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Voice is understood here as the set of textual cues characterizing a subjective or collective identity in a text. The author focuses on what is special about voice in retranslation and how intratextual (a character’s voice) and extratextual voices (translators’ and publishers’ voices) might be related in retranslation. The analysis indicates that a character’s voice as a whole can reflect the retranslator’s voice and the purpose of his/her translation. In addition, translators’ voices can recirculate in retranslation, but they do not necessarily do so if the purpose of the translation, the translator’s choice of source texts, or translation ethics prevents this.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Key theoretical concepts
    • 2.1Voice
    • 2.2Translation, retranslation, direct and indirect retranslation
    • 2.3Voice in retranslation
  • 3.Analysis: retranslation viewed through intra- and extratextual voices
    • 3.1Three starting points: Defoe (1719), Tandefelt (1847), and Hahnsson and Hahnsson (1875)
    • 3.2The corpus texts
      • 3.2.1Samuli Suomalainen (1905)
      • 3.2.2Väinö Hämeen-Anttila (1911)
      • 3.2.3 Tauno Karilas (1945)
      • 3.2.4 Juhani Lindholm (2000)
      • 3.2.5The intralingual translations: Rajala 2002 and Pirskanen 2004
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
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