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(MIS)MATCHING CULTURES. WUTHERING HEIGHTS: TRANSLATION JOURNEY IN THE WORLD OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES

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  • 1. Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania

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  • 1. Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania

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The present paper is an overview of the translation history of the novel Wuthering Heights in several Romance languages: French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. The research focuses on tracing the “cultural afterlife” of the novel in the aforementioned national spaces and aims at finding a pattern in the cultural reception of the novel. At the same time, the study dwells on what makes each cultural space influence and particularise the reception process, given the different historical contexts. Title translation and the views on plagiarism and copyright also shed some light on various attitudes on the process of retranslation, a timebound endeavour that records linguistic and cultural change.

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