Brevitas Americana
Stephen Crane, traduzione poetica e visibilità modernista
Keywords:
Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Modernism, Visible language and semantics, Intersemiotic translation, Interlingual and literary translationAbstract
With the unfolding of the new millennium, Stephen Crane’s first volume of poetry, The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895), has been reassessed as one of the four works that «defined the shape of American poetry» in the nineteenth century as well as «the first American book printed with a clear Modernist design» (McGann). In a similar vein, its young author has been granted the status of «first American modernist» (Auster). Following such bold reappraisals, this essay explores some of Crane’s shorter poems with a focus on different aspects of translation. Characterized by conciseness and projections of linguistically contracted and expressively dense imagery, Crane’s lines share a common ground of visualization across a range of signifying systems. These lines generate powerful interactions between verbal and nonverbal arts; solicit intralingual and intrasemiotic transmutations; foreground intertextual and semantic complexities at the crossroads where intersemiotic and interlingual translation meet and join in the challenge that turns the literary translator’s task into an even more daunting one.
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