From mimetic translation to artistic transduction : a semiotic perspective on Virginia Woolf, Hector Berlioz, and Bertolt Brecht / Dinda Gorlée.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorlée, Dinda L., author.

Series:

Anthem symplokē studies in theory.

Anthem symploke Studies in Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Criticism and interpretation.

Brecht, Bertolt.

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869--Criticism and interpretation.

Berlioz, Hector.

Intermediality.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2023.

Summary:

Roman Jakobson gave a literary translation of the double words and concepts of poetical hyper translation. Language can transmit verbal translation to explore new ways of thinking about music and other arts. Thomas A. Sebeok deconstructed the energy of translation into the duplicated genres of artistic transduction. In semiotics, transduction is a technical expression involving music, theater, and other arts. Jakobson used Saussure's theory to give a single meaning in a different art but with other words and sounds, later followed by Peirce's dynamic energy with a floating sensation of the double meaning of words and concepts. For semiotician Peirce, literary translation becomes the graphical vision of ellipsis, parabole, and hyperbole. Ellipsis is illustrated by Virginia Woolf's novel <i>The Waves</i> to give a political transformation of Wagner's opera 'Das Rheingold'. Parabole is illustrated by the two lines of thought of Hector Berlioz. He neglected his own translation of Virgil's <i>Aeneid</i>, when he retranslated the vocal text to accompany the musical lyrics of his opera 'The Trojans'. Hyperbole is demonstrated by Bertold Brecht's auto-translation of Gay's <i>The Beggar's Opera</i>. In the cabaret theater of The Three penny Opera, Brecht recreated his epic hyper-translation by retranslating the language of the folk speech of the German working classes with the jargon of criminal slang.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

1. Forked Tongues: Theory from Translation to Transduction

Exploring New Avenues of Translation

Jakobson's Concept of Poetry in Translation

From Translation to Transduction

Sebeok's Transduction

2. Wave after Wave: Wagner's Waves Eclipsed by Virginia Woolf

Play Within Play

Three Waves

Wagner's Water Music

Virginia Woolf's Brain Waves

3. War and Love: The Parabolic Retranslation in Berlioz's Opera

Berlioz's Poetical Drama

Olympic Odyssey

Hunt and Storm

4. The Threepenny Opera: Jakobson's Poetics Retranslated in the Spirit of Brecht's Work-Plays

New Tongues for Brecht's Language

Brecht Juggling with Gay's The Beggar's Opera

From Speech to Criminal Slang

Epic Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2024).

ISBN:

9781839989100

1839989106

9781839989094

1839989092

OCLC:

1396697825