English Fiction Since 1984

Finney, Brian

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“…(Buhl 2011, 29) The translation of the mind style of Stevens, the butler and firstperson narrator, in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, reveals a similar sensitivity to the style of the ST on the part of the translator, Mayoux. Stevens has long been recognised as a repressed character (Finney 2006;Beedham 2009) and as "emotionally illiterate" (Toolan 1998, 54). Ishiguro himself has acknowledged that the language he uses in his novels "tends to be the sort that actually suppresses meaning and tries to hide away meaning" (Schaffer 1998, 7).…”

Section: Maximalising the Mind Keeping The Character's Voicementioning

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Style and Voice: Lost in Translation?

Pilliere¹

2018

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Although translation studies play an important role within the academic cursus of undergraduate degrees in French universities, and are a core element of the competitive civil service examinations (the CAPES and the Agrégation) which are required to teach in the French education system, little attention is paid to translating style per se. Translation modules which are usually compulsory at undergraduate level are, perhaps understandably, concerned with teaching language skills: checking that the text has been understood, that grammatical structures are fully mastered and that students have an extensive knowledge of lexical items. Investigating the stylistic features of a text, before translating it, often takes a backseat, is consigned to an optional module and considered to be of secondary importance, if it is considered at all. This lack of interest in translating the style of a text mirrors a lack of critical interest and theory in translating style in general. There are of course notable exceptions to this such as Munday (2008), Boase-Beier (2006), Parks (1998) and May (1994), but generally within translation studies, style has remained neglected. Even when theorists, such as Nida and Taber (1969, 12), focus on the receptor and the impact of the message, it is meaning that comes first and style that comes second: Translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style. This separation of style and meaning leads to style being considered as ornamentation, something which can therefore be discarded, or even

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Section: Maximalising the Mind Keeping The Character's Voicementioning

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Style and Voice: Lost in Translation?

Pilliere¹

2018

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“…Ishiguro creates a ground on which he can clearly depict the effects of the public history on individuals' lives through his fictional characters and this is also the reason of the shifts between present and past as Finney (2006) points out as "the past is alive in the present" (Finney, 2006, p. 148). What people remember and tell is more important than what really happened in the past for Ishiguro.…”

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A New Historicist Approach to Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans

Serdaroğlu

2017

Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences

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New Historicism, flourishing in the 1980s as a "new" contemporary literary approach, proposes new viewpoints to the understanding of history and challenges the conventional understanding of history by pointing out the private histories. New Historicism deals with the representations of history rather than the history itself since it believes that there is not one history but multiple histories. The purpose of this article is to analyze the representation of history in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans from the New Historicist viewpoint by focusing on the concepts of time, memory and narrative technique, hence to reveal how history is narrated in subjective multiple ways and how personal histories and public histories are intermingled.

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“…However, reconstructed Malayo-Polynesian terms for canoe parts together with the distribution of canoe features recorded in Oceania by early European observers suggest that a likely Lapita type was a single-outrigger canoe with a hull made from dugout log, and its freeboard raised with lashed-on strakes. The sail was a simple two-spar rig of a kind usually described as an "oceanic spritsail," and the canoe may have changed direction relative to the wind by some mode of tacking rather than shunting (Anderson 2000;Blust 1999;Doran 1981;Finney 2006;Haddon and Hornell 1997;Pawley and Pawley 1994). The same general rig type was subsequently used by double-hulled tacking canoes during the colonization of East Polynesia, but the spread of a three-spar "oceanic lateen" form was evidently much later and its distribution more restricted.…”

Section: Lapita Canoe Formmentioning

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“…These are questions which bear on the choices and constraints on sailors and settlers during episodes of migration, but scholars and modern sailors differ in their views (e.g., Anderson 2000Anderson , 2003Finney 2006). No clear answers are to be found in the performance of most modern replica canoes, but some traditional canoe types are more readily comparable.…”

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Pacific Seascapes, Canoe Performance, and a Review of Lapita Voyaging with Regard to Theories of Migration

Irwin¹

2008

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THIS ARTICLE CONSIDERS VARIATION IN ISLAND AREA and ocean area across the Pacific, in order to compare voyaging and settlement in the Lapita domain (approximately 3000 years ago), with an earlier period in Near Oceania (late Pleistocene to mid-Holocene), and a later one in Polynesia (first and second millennium A.D.). It appears that there were different and more navigationally demanding kinds of seascape associated with these successive episodes of migration. The form and performance of canoes are discussed, including those possibly associated with Lapita colonization, and some of the practicalities of ocean voyaging and navigating in a Lapita context are examined. Finally, three models of migration are reviewed concerning (1) ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) forcing; (2) Holocene hydro-isostatic sea-level change; and (3) exploration involving strategic use of weather systems. LAND AND SEA AREAS AND THEIR RELATION TO EPISODES OF DISPERSAL IN THE PACIFICIsland groups differ in their areas of land and surrounding sea, and there are broad patterns of variation across the Pacific Ocean. People living on islands were obliged to negotiate the ocean, and these variations affected initial settlement and subsequent interaction. Comparison of islands involves dividing an ocean into spheres of interest to particular islands, and while the methods are necessarily arbitrary recent studies have produced coherent results which are further investigated here (Irwin 1998(Irwin , 2000. Estimated values for land and sea areas are shown in Figure 1. The values for ocean area are taken from a model which establishes boundaries midway between adjacent islands to create a series of contiguous seascapes, which have each been closed with an arc of the shortest possible radius. The method (1) treats all islands alike; (2) the area of ocean in each seascape is minimized; and (3) all of the enclosed sea lies closest to the enclosed island.

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English Fiction Since 1984

Cited by 28 publications

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Style and Voice: Lost in Translation?

Style and Voice: Lost in Translation?

A New Historicist Approach to Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans

Pacific Seascapes, Canoe Performance, and a Review of Lapita Voyaging with Regard to Theories of Migration

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