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DESCRIPTION:Using examples from two anthologies of Russian children’s literature in English translation, this lecture explores the diverse strategies employed by contemporary translators. Translating children’s poetry requires navigating meter, rhythm, and rhyme while preserving the poem’s essential poetic nuance. Translators adopt multiple approaches to rendering cultural context, proper names, and toponyms; often poets themselves, they engage in a complex balancing act between domestication and foreignization, semantic precision and poetic form, literal equivalence and idiomatic English.\nBut do we—translators and readers of poetry—ever truly know what is right and what is wrong? Translating children’s poetry offers no simple or definitive answers. Instead, this lecture invites us on a journey through poetic lines to examine the many choices, compromises, and creative solutions different translators have made.\n \n \n
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LOCATION:Moore Hall 257 
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Russian Children's Poetry: Multiple Approaches to English Translation
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