The polyphonic novel is defined by Bakhtin as the one in which the character's voice is never ultimately submerged by that of the narrator. Bakhtin describes Dostoevsky's novels as “A plurality of independent and unmerged voices and consciousnesses, a genuine polyphony of fully valid voices ( Read more... )

I'd like to warn you that this poll and my interpretations on its results have no scientific value whatsoever. I'm just speculating. Maybe my (tldr;) speculations may apply to other authors' stories as well.

To my Portuguese speaking friends: I'll post a slightly different version of this post on my lj skeptyx, in Portuguese ( Read more... )

A translator can take two different attitudes when translating a text. As Lawrence Venuti says in The Scandals of Translation, translation necessarily domesticates its source text. The degree to which a translator domesticates a literary work in order to make it legible within the dominant code of the target language is of critical importance. ( Read more... )

Stolen from many people on my f-list ( Read more... )