The voices of suspense and their translation in thrillers / edited by Susanne M. Cadera and Anita Pavic Pintaric.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cadera, Susanne M., editor.

Pavić Pintarić, Anita, editor.

Series:

Approaches to translation studies ; Volume 39.

Approaches to Translation Studies ; Volume 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Conversation in literature.

Dialogism (Literary analysis).

Dialogue in literature.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume aims to be a reference work for all researchers interested in the study of fictional dialogue and its translation in suspense novels and films as well as in related genres. The volume also aims to determine the interplay between the creation of suspense and fictional dialogue. The particular interest in dialogue comes from the host of roles it plays in fiction. It helps create suspense and arouses a whole range of feelings in the reader or the audience related to the development of the plot. Fictional dialogue is the discursive method of evoking orality, conferring authenticity and credibility on a plot and giving fictional characters a voice. As a narrative strategy, dialogue is an important resource that enables the writer to shape the character’s subjectivity. In thrillers the characters’ voice is part of the process of creating suspense, an element of uncertainty, anxiety and excitement, which is not exclusive to this genre. To clearly differentiate suspense from the tension created by other types of fiction, this volume aims to study the relationship between the characters’ voices and the building of suspense and to describe the translation difficulties arising from this particular interdependence.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Abbreviations used in this volume

Creation of suspense through dialogue and its translation / Susanne M. Cadera and Anita Pavi Pintarić

Thrilled by Trilby? Dreading Dracula? Late-Victorian thrillers and the curse of the foreign tongue / Dirk Delabastita

Stylistic and linguistic creation of suspense in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs / Sanja Škifić and Rajko Petković

The voices of suspense and the French detective novel: Alain Demouzon’s Melchior / Soledad Díaz Alarcón

Reconstructing suspense: Borges translates Faulkner’s The Wild Palms / Leah Leone

Chester Himes’s For Love of Imabelle in Spanish: Josep Elias’s “absurdly” overcompensated slang / Daniel Linder

“Se so’ sparati a via Merulana”: Achieving linguistic variation and oral discourse in the French and Spanish versions of Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (chapter 1) / José Luis Aja Sánchez

Bringing home the banter: Translating “empty” dialogue in exotic crime fiction / Jean Anderson

The semiotic implications of multilingualism in the construction of suspense in Alfred Hitchcock’s films / Giuseppe De Bonis

The narrator’s voice in translation: What remains from a linguistic experiment in Wolf Haas’s Brenner detective novels / Jenny Brumme

Reducing distance between characters, narrator and reader. Fictive dialogue in Steinfest’s Nervöse Fische and its translation into French / Guilhem Naro and Maria Wirf Naro

Shifting points of view: The translation of suspense-building narrative style / Anna Espunya

Red herrings and other misdirection in translation / Karen Seago

Resonant voices: The illocutionary reconstruction of suspense in the translation of dialogue / Laila C. Ahmad Helmi

Analysis of the different features and functions of dialogue in a comparable corpus of crime novels / Bárbara Martínez Vilinsky

Translating emotions expressed in nonverbal features of dialogues in the novel: Schnee in Venedig / Anita Pavić Pintarić and Sybille Schellheimer

English-Spanish subtitling and dubbing (1960's and 1970's): Voices of suspense in Polanski’s Repulsion / Camino Gutiérrez Lanza

Name index

Subject index

Earlier volumes in the APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION STUDIES series.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 23, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-1069-1

OCLC:

879551433