Translation and Interpretation: A. Blok Translated Into Scots

Student: Filonova Anastasia

Supervisor: Elena Ostrovskaya

Educational Programme: Comparative Studies: Russian Literature in Cross-cultural Perspective (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

While the history of Scottish influence on Russian literature has been quite well-investigated, the same cannot be said of Scottish reception and Scottish translations: this topic still appears to be a lacuna within the field of Russian Translation Studies. This research attempts to analyze how Alexander Blok, whose poetry became of utmost importance for the whole Scottish Renaissance movement, was perceived and translated in Scotland. Having described which stages of development translation into Scots as a phenomenon had to go through, this paper takes three translated works - by Hugh Macdiarmid (1926), Sydney G. Smith (1959) and Frances Robson (2017) - as its main material and analyzes unique techniques used in these translations, as well as main tendencies of Scottish translations of the last century as a whole.

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