Ugly Ducklings?Ugly Ducklings Ugly Duckling scorned as unsightly, grows to be graceful swan. [Dan. Fairy Tale: Andersen’s Fairy Tales] See : Beauty Ugly Duckling ugly outcast until fully grown. [Fairy Tale: Misc.] See : Ugliness ? Viggo Hjornager Pedersen University Press of Southern Denmark c/o International Specialized Book Services 920 Northeast 58th Avenue, Suite 300, Portland, OR 97213 8778388562 $37.50 1-800-944-6190 www.isbscatalog.com In Ugly Ducklings?: Studies In The English Translations Of Hans Christian Andersen's Tales And Stories, Viggo Pedersen carefully studies the major English translations of Hans Christian Andersen's timeless timeless, adj infinite, enduring, endless. stories, and of the people who created the translations. Working from the assumption that the personality and background of the translator, as well as the literary climate of the day, strongly affected the translations themselves, Ugly Duckings? superbly demonstrates how different English translations have affected one another--especially given that many were made with little or no reference to the original Danish text. A thoroughly researched account that covers the efforts of virtually every well-known translator of Andersen's work from 1846-1907, contemporary translations, and common translation problems such as pragmatics pragmatics In linguistics and philosophy, the study of the use of natural language in communication; more generally, the study of the relations between languages and their users. , syntax, vocabulary, and phraseology phra·se·ol·o·gy n. pl. phra·se·ol·o·gies 1. The way in which words and phrases are used in speech or writing; style. 2. , Ugly Ducklings? is a superb and thoughtful contribution to linguistics linguistics, scientific study of language, covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar), sounds (phonology), and meaning (semantics), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human and literature shelves, as well as a "must-read" for any interested in up-close study and literary analysis of Andersen's classics. |
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