The translation of an acrostic
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acrostic, translation, meaning, literatureAbstract
The present text deals with the problem of the consideration of a very old stylistic figure as the acrostic and the difficulty of its translation in a foreign language. With this purpose, the author considers a famous sonnet by Gwen Harwood and the acrostic poem mentioned in Jonathan Franzen’s novel Purity.Downloads
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