Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

Scott, Carole

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-28504-1_10

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“…These events are, in turn, linked to another recurrent topic in Matilda and other popular books by the same author: rebellion commonly embodied in kids and their behavior. As West (1992) pointed out in his extensive study on the author, Matilda is an example of struggle against tyranny in which kids' uprising is probably the most salient epitome of this crusade.…”

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“…On the one hand, we can find opinions like Hunt's (2001), who claimed that Dahl's heroes and heroines-including Matilda-are driven by sheer hate, prejudice and violence, being these elements the triggers of their revenge. On the other, authors like West (1992) defended that Matilda is one of Dahl's greatest heroes, not only due to her outstanding qualities and intellect, but also to her constant fight against adult's tyranny. This issue also allows middle-ground viewpoints to arise like Guest's (2008), who basically portrays Matilda as a rebel against adult's oppression but an adherent of the patriarchal scheme ruling society.…”

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Did you draw what I wanted to say? Picture-Text Dynamics and Intersemiotic Translation in Roald Dahl’s Matilda

Galván¹

2019

Onomazein

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The present paper is an analysis of the illustrations of Roald Dahl's Matilda (2016 [1988]) through the prism of intersemiotic translation. The main purposes of this study are to determine the type of relationships established between text and pictures in the novel and to identify how the illustrator represents some of its main topics, to wit: the importance of books and education, adults' abuse of power, rebellion, and school mistreatment. In order to achieve these objectives, the paper analyzes the interrelation between several passages of the text and their corresponding illustrations. Subsequently, the study categorizes the different dynamics established between text and pictures and discusses how some procedures connected to Translation Studies can be aligned with the decisions taken by the illustrator when depicting the foregoing themes. As a result, the paper concludes that Matilda's illustrations work as emphasizers of some of the messages Dahl intended to transmit to his readership when writing this book.

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confidence: 99%