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7 - Stylistic Aspects of Detective Fiction in Translation

The Case of ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ in Slovenian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

By
Simon Zupan
Edited by
John Douthwaite  and
Ulrike Tabbert
John Douthwaite
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Genova
Ulrike Tabbert
Affiliation:
University of Huddersfield
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Summary

Zupan identifies by means of in-depth analysis the stylistic features of a passage from ’The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ by Edgar Allan Poe. He then compares how these features have been preserved or changed in two translations of the novel into Slovenian.

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translationSlovenianEdgar Allan Poetransitivityspeech presentation
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The Linguistics of Crime , pp. 121 - 149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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