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Volume XXIV, Number 1

Fall 2008

Copyright 2009 by The University of Central Florida: ISSN 0884-2949

About the Cover: Heather Wayne’s Reducto absurdum (digital collage), 2009, captures the morphological and lexical confluence and incongruence between Faulkner’s writings and its respective translation. The act of translating Faulkner entails rendering the sociodialects, as well as the memes, of the American South comprehensible to a non-English reading audience. In a 1956 interview, Faulkner remarked that the writer records the poetic traditions of their culture in their folklore and vernacular: "In doing that he gives a pattern of hope and aspiration for the nation, for the people, to advance not merely as a nation of people but as a member of a family of nations, of the human family." Like the writer, the translator’s task is to re-create the original by embedding the "traditions of poetry" within their translations."