“Barbaric Yawp” in Russian

• Authors: Andrey Azov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The essay traces the history of Kornei Chukovsky’s translation of Whitman’s “yawp” into Russian, points out the oddities of the translation and suggests a tentative explanation of Chukovsky’s word choice. It also examines the “yawp” in the Russian translation of the film Dead Poets Society.

Keywords

EN

comparative literature, translation studies, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, Russian literature

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 4
• Pages: p. 321-325

Contributors

author

Andrey Azov

• Moscow State University (Faculty of Philology, Department of Discourse and Communication)