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Translation and the Poetics of Gender: Orlando: A Biography, Three Guineas and Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Their Russian Translation

Student: Ramazanova Aisha

Supervisor: Elena Ostrovskaya

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This paper analyses the transfer of gender images in Virginia Woolf’s texts into their Russian translation. The analysis is based on four Russian translations of the two Woolf’s works: the novel «Orlando: Biography» (1928) and the essay «A Room of One’s Own» (1929). Using translation studies and feminist literary criticism as a theoretical framework, this study refers to the theory of the founder of the "school of manipulation" Theo Hermans and to Sandra Gilbert’s and Susan Gubar’s research «The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination». Comparative analysis of the original texts and their Russian translations includes comparison of linguistic and lexical specifics of the original text and its Russian translation and analysis of semantic fields of gender-specific images, taking into account grammatical differences between English and Russian languages (that including Russian being more gender-specific in comparison to English).

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