16. ‘Beside myself; or rather out of myself’: First Person Presence in the Estonian Translation of Jane Eyre
Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The essay discusses the ways that Jane Eyre’s intense presence in the text both as a first person narrator and an experiencing character is changed in translation to Estonian, a relatively more passive language than English. It focuses on the narrative aspects of the translator’s immersive experience: which scenes and settings in the narrative tend to increase or decrease the presence of the ‘I’ in the text? How do changing degrees of closeness to or distance from the first person alter the point of view and other narrative functions? How does Jane come across through her narration in the Estonian version?
Source: Open Book Publishers
DOI: 10.11647/obp.0319.24
Author: Madli Kütt
Institution: Estonian National Defense College
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4388654072