2015/01/15 by Ronald Jenn · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #American Literature and Humor Studies #Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies #American Sports and Literature
paper · doi:10.3917/rfea.138.0040
openalex publication_date 2015/01/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/19
Because of his life-long interest in language matters, and even though he never fully mastered a foreign idiom, Mark Twain probed the possibilities of translation on several occasions, playfully as well as in earnest. The possibilities offered by translation for linguistic masquerading climax in his pseudo-translation Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. This article focuses on this novel and aims to show that it coheres with the author’s perception of language diversity and the potential for creativity it offers.