Nursery rhymes: pieces of the children’s literature puzzle in translation

Authors

• Catalina Millán Scheiding, Berklee College of Music

Work Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Department

Berklee Valencia; First Year Abroad; Study Abroad

Keywords

nursery rhyme; translation; Spanish; English; children’s literature

Abstract

Nursery rhymes are being found increasingly in translational situations, normally in intertextual translations, yet there is no framework or specific study of how they should be translated. This paper aims, on the one hand, to explore the theories related to children’s literature translation that could be applied to nursery rhyme translation, and on the other hand, to identify the particular idiosyncrasies of nursery rhymes that may have an effect on their translation. Several examples are analyzed from different media (comic, children’s book and film) in their translation from English into Spanish and new study possibilities are proposed.

Comments

Copyright ESSE and Catalina Millán Scheiding. First published in The ESSE Messenger 25/1, 2016.

Recommended Citation

Millán Scheiding, Catalina, "Nursery rhymes: pieces of the children’s literature puzzle in translation" (2016). Faculty Works.
https://remix.berklee.edu/faculty-works/127