A. S. Pushkin "The Winter Road": the Poem's Reception in the English-Speaking World Through the Mirror of Close Reading

Abstract

The article focuses on the problem of the reception of Russian poetry translations in English-speak­ing culture. The object is Pushkin's poem "The Winter Road", translated into English in the period of 1885-2016. The subject is the particularities of conveying the content of the poem in English translations. The study materials are 12 translations of "The Winter Road". The translations were carried out both by English and Russian native speakers. The main objective of the research is to see using the close reading method, what difficulties can be encountered by translators of Russian poetry. The tasks of the study were as follows: to describe the peculiarities of conveying the poem's vocabulary, to outline the group of the key words, recognize and describe discrepancies in their trans­lation, to analyze the process of adaptation of the poem in the English-speaking culture/

В статье рассматриваются переводы стихотворения А. С. Пушкина "Зим­няя дорога" на английский язык.