RENDERING THE IMAGERY OF L. A. FILATOV’S PLAY “THE TALE OF SOLDIER FEDOT, THE DARING FELLOW” IN THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Abstract

The article examines the imagery in the poetic work The Tale of Soldier Fedot, The Daring Fellow from a comparative perspective, based on the following propositions: 1) an image is the primary unit of the artistic content of a literary work; 2) imagery manifests itself primarily through its expressiveness, which is realized through various means at both the semantic and verbal levels; 3) the transmission of imagery in a literary work during translation is considered within the framework of pragmatic and linguocultural approaches and is achieved through a set of translation transformations; 4) the genre, style, and use of specific emotive vocabulary (in this case, mostly colloquial) significantly influence the transmission of imagery in the original text, which is reflected in the challenges identified when examining the English translation of the material. The presented research also quantitatively determines the intensity of expressiveness of the vocabulary used to convey imagery. The article concludes that as a result of the analysis of the expressiveness of vocabulary, which is responsible for forming the imagery of the work, the lack of intensity of expressive vocabulary in the translation in comparison with the original was revealed, which is explained by the specificity of the genre and style of the translated work.