La traducción de unidades léxicas disfóricas en dos traducciones al castellano de The Bell Jar (1963), de Sylvia Plath

Segarra Montero, Rosa

La traducción de unidades léxicas disfóricas en dos traducciones al castellano de The Bell Jar (1963), de Sylvia Plath

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Segarra Montero, R. La traducción de unidades léxicas disfóricas en dos traducciones al castellano de The Bell Jar (1963), de Sylvia Plath. 2022. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54260

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In this dissertation, I will analyse the manifestation of a mental illness, depression, in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963) through the study of a series of dysphoric lexical units. Thus, I will monitor the dysphoric lexical units that are indicative of the protagonist’s mental state and her progressive psychological deterioration. In order to carry out this research, I will focus on two Spanish translations of the novel, one by Elena Rius (1998) and the other by Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino (2019), so as to discover whether the lexicon of the original novel turns out to be similar or divergent in the target texts. I will also examine whether in the translation of this lexicon, the effect it produces, the degree of semantic intensity and the affective world of the protagonist, as well as her point of view, vary depending on the lexical choices of the translator. This study aims to explore the impact of the lexical selection of the translations of The Bell Jar on the protagonist’s point of view, the role she adopts, her characterisation and, consequently, the reader’s perception of the novel.