Literary Text Intermediality as Translation Problem (by the Example of the English Translation of Colouronyms from I. A. Bunin’s Story “Shrove Monday”)

Abstract

The article considers the problem of translating literary colouronyms from Russian into English. Scientific originality of the paper involves a new approach to studying colour term semantics: literary colouronyms are considered as a means to express intermedial relations. Relying on the conducted analysis, the researcher identifies the basic difficulties in translating authorial colouronyms: their synesthetic nature and complicated chromatic pattern of the original text.