Adaptation in Children's Literature

Translation Theory – Domestication in Children’s Literature

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 2 1.0 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND TRANSLATING FOR CHILDREN ......................................... 3 2.0 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GRIMMS’ FAIRY TALES .......................................................... 6 3.0 DOMESTICATION
IN THE TRANSLATION OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

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4.0 DOMESTICATION IN GRIMMS’ FAIRY TALES ...................................................................... 9 4.1 IDEOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS .......................................................................................... 9 4.2 IMAGE ADAPTATIONS - TRANSLATION OF ILLUSTRATIONS ........................................ 11 4.3 RHYTHM ADJUSTMENT .................................................................................................. 17 4.4 DOMESTICATION OF NAMES ......................................................................................... 19 CONCLUSIONS .......................................................................................................................... 21 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................ 23

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Translation Theory – Domestication in Children’s Literature

“Domestication accommodates itself to target cultural and linguistic values: through domestication, we adapt the text according to its future readers, culture, society, norms and power relations.” (Oittinen 2003:129). Discuss in relation to the translation of children‟s literature.

INTRODUCTION In the last forty years, children‟s literature, a domain traditionally associated with teachers and librarians, has been made a subject of extensive scholarly research (Tabbert 2002). In fact, research across various disciplines has contributed to

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