“In Germany Before the War”, by Randy Newman: a Song Translation Proposal

This article presents a detailed analysis of the interactionbetween the formal and semantic levels of a song by Randy Newman,attempting to pinpoint its expressive mechanisms both as poetic text andas song. On this basis, we offer a Brazilian Portuguese translation of thesong that tries to achieve th...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Galindo, Caetano; Britto, Paulo Henriques
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2021
Country:Brasil
Institution:UFSC
Repository:Cadernos de Tradução (Florianópolis. Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/74141
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/74141
Access Level:Open access
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Summary:This article presents a detailed analysis of the interactionbetween the formal and semantic levels of a song by Randy Newman,attempting to pinpoint its expressive mechanisms both as poetic text andas song. On this basis, we offer a Brazilian Portuguese translation of thesong that tries to achieve the same effects, so that it can be read and sungon the same terms as the original.