Abstract
This paper presents a few considerations about the translation of the short story “The Garden Party”, written by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield. The comments are divided in three sections. The first one deals with Javier Franco Aixelá’s (1996)AIXELÁ, Javier Franco. Culture-specific Items in Translation. In: ÁLVAREZ, Román.; VIDAL, M. Carmen-África (Ed.). Translation, Power, Subversion. Clevedon: Multilingal Matters, 1996, p. 52-78. concept of culture-specific items, which refers to the translation of terms that are specific to the culture of the source language. The second one deals with linguistic variation, exploring the way in which the characters pertaining to lower social classes have their speech marked on the text. Lastly, we explore the multiplicity of possible readings of the same text, and how it affects the translation. In order to do that, we analyze some aspects of the language used by Mansfield, as discussed by different essays about the short story.
Keywords
Literary translation; English literature; Cultural references; Linguistic variation; Literary criticism