Shakespeare, the Ekphrastic Translator

• Authors: Pia Brînzeu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In The Rape of Lucrece, the Shakespearean heroine admires a wall-painting illustrating a scene from the Trojan War. The two hundred lines of the poem in which Lucrece describes the ancient characters involved in the war represent a remarkable piece of ekphrastic transposition. It produces a vivid effect in the poem’s narrative, draws attention to the power of ekphrasis in guiding the reader’s interpretation, and represents an unrivalled example of embedded ekphrasis, unique in Renaissance poetry.

Keywords

EN

Shakespeare; Rape of Lucrece; ekphrasis; inter-semiotic transposition; verbal and visual codes; translation process

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Linguaculture
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 2015
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-97

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2016-02-22

Contributors

author

Pia Brînzeu

• West University of Timişoara, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/lincu-2015-0038