Omission In Translating “horror Symbolism” In Edgar Allan Poe’s “the Fall Of The House Of Usher”
الحذف في ترجمة "رموز الرعب" في "سقوط منزل عائلة آشر" لإدغار آلان بو
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https://doi.org/10.33705/1111-015-002-026Keywords:
Edgar Allan Poe, Gothic Literature, Omission, Symbolism, horrorAbstract
Abstract: The translation of gothic literature entails conveying cultural and symbolic elements that can be unfamiliar to the readers of the target language, consequently, translators are required to reproduce these features while still prioritizing the feeling of horror that the readers are supposed to experience. In order to achieve that, they have to find adequate equivalents, but when they are not able to, some of them opt for omission. The problematic of this paper revolves around whether the strategy of omission that was heavily relied on by Nadia Farid was a wise choice for the translation of the selected excerpts from “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Comparing these examples in the original language and their translation will help determine if the latter produces the same effect of visceral Horror for target readers as the original text.
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