Retranslation and reception: John Milton's Paradise Lost translations as a way of interpretation of the poem and its translations

• Grant number: 13/06533-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Effective date (Start): August 15, 2013
• Effective date (End): August 14, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: John Milton
• Grantee: Afonso Teixeira Filho
• Supervisor: Reine Meylaerts
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: University of Leuven, Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/51890-0 - Retranslation and reception: translations of Paradise Lost, by John Milton, as a counterpoint to the original and to the existing translations, BP.PD

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the translations of Paradise Lost, by John Milton, into Portuguese, by the comparative method of deforming trends postulated by Antoine Berman. We will start by the analysis of the translation of the same poem by François-René de Chateaubriand - which Berman defines as a re-translation, i.e., a translation that works at the same time as a counterpoint to the original and to the existing translations. Taking the contrasts between Chateaubriand's translation and the translations into Portuguese, we intend to determine the types of deviations present in the latter, and to what extent such deviations affect the translated text. Then we shall propose a way towards a re-translation of Paradise Lost, with the aim of promoting a reassessment and reevaluation of the work under criticism in English. (AU)