Some uffish thoughts on the Swedish translations of “Jabberwocky”
In this article the “translatability” (and/or untranslatability) of nonsense is addressed. For this purpose, five Swedish versions of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass (1871) are examined: the vocabulary, the syntax, the metre and rhythm, as...
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| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2017-11-01
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| Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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| Online Access: | https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/175 |