Translating Human Inner Life In and Between the Arts

This book tackles the fascinating subject of human inner life (feelings, emotions, sentiments and self-reflection ) permeating different forms of art. The notion of translation is applied to explain both the mechanisms of transposing human feelings into artistic works and interactions between different fields of art. Art offers a type of description close to human perception in a way in which all elements of our inner life are embodied in signs, codes, and systems - made up of words, sounds, or images. Semiotics and thinking in terms of translation make it possible to find points of convergence between works coming from different disciplines of art, or even between different artistic-semiotic systems.The book examines how so-called human inner life can be translated in different arts and between the arts. It also shows the arts as a tool of communication using a wide array of case studies taken from different times and cultures, and explains what arts use to make this communication possible.The methodological perspective is multidimensional covering translation studies and semiotics studies, including semiotics of passion, semiotics of culture, existential semiotics and biosemiotics, as well as different arts'' fields - music, literature, film, visual arts, multimedia and video games. The book combines these approaches and tools for each field in order to create a new approach that permits an examination of the process of translation in various arts connected to human inner life. In this way, the reader can see the complexity of human inner life from an interdisciplinary perspective.>

Auteur
Malgorzata Gamrat is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Arts Studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.

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The book examines how so-called human inner life - feelings, emotions, sentiments and self-reflection - permeates different forms of art. The methodological perspective is multidimensional covering translation studies and semiotics studies, including semiotics of passion, semiotics of culture, existential semiotics and biosemiotics, as well as different arts' fields - music, literature, film, visual arts, multimedia and video games. The book combines these approaches and tools for each field in order to create a new approach that permits an examination of the process of translation in various arts connected to human inner life. In this way, the reader can see the complexity of human inner life from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Résumé

The book examines how so-called human inner life feelings, emotions, sentiments and self-reflection permeates different forms of art.

The methodological perspective is multidimensional covering translation studies and semiotics studies, including semiotics of passion, semiotics of culture, existential semiotics and biosemiotics, as well as different arts' fields music, literature, film, visual arts, multimedia and video games. The book combines these approaches and tools for each field in order to create a new approach that permits an examination of the process of translation in various arts connected to human inner life. In this way, the reader can see the complexity of human inner life from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Contenu

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Inner Life, the Arts, Translation(s), and Semiotics, Malgorzata Gamrat (**John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Part I: Translation Inner Life in the Arts: From a Theory to the (Artistic) Practice

1. Semiotic-Translational Negotiations. Emotions in the Trans-Sign Processes Across Cultures, Humans and Sign Systems, Katarzyna Machtyl (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
2. Translating Innenwelt: The Biosemiotics of Art, Kobus Marais (University of the Free State, Republic of South Africa)
   
   3. The Inner Life of Avatars: Translating Emotions to Gameplay in Digital Games, Mattia Thibault and Riku Haapaniemi (*Tampere University, Finland)*
3. Psychosemiosis in Science Fiction: Rydra Wong in Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17 and the Semiotics of the Translator's Inner Life, Douglas Robinson (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
   
   5. The Toré and its Elements in Tuxá Indigenous Context: Translating Inner World through Performative Art in Brazilian Northeast, Jimena Bigá (**University of Helsinki, Finland)
4. Expression of Nostalgia in George Enescu's Impressions d'Enfance, Oana Andreica (**Gheorghe Dima National Academy of Music, Romania)
   Part II: Transcending Cultures and Centuries: Translation between the Arts
5. Transcultural Legitimacy in the 19th-Century French Romance: Providing Meaning to Spanishness, Sandra Myers (Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra, Spain)
6. An Extra-Systemic Translation of Nostalgia: Chopin and the Music Video to Natalia Kukulska's Song Z wyjatkiem nas, Malgorzata Grajter (**Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz University of Music in Lódz, University of Lódz, Poland)
7. Kubrick with Ravel: The Waltz as Signifier of an Impossibility, Ivan Capeller (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
8. From Flesh to Marble: Translating Grief Between Media in Tony Harrison's Film-Poem, Agata Handley (University of Lodz, Poland)
   
   11. Dark Emotions: Translating Beckett into Visuality, The Case of Zbigniew Makowski, Agnieszka Kuczynska (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
9. Plagiarism as a Form of Intersemiotic Translation: The New Forms of Implicit (Un)Boundaries in the Visual Contemporary Arts, Helena Pires (University of Minho, Portugal) and Rui Sousa-Silva (Universida de do Porto, Portugal)
   Index