Abstract
In this article, I argue that whereas Lewis Carroll builds the fantastic world of Alice’s dreams primarily through narration, Hans Christian Andersen uses patterns of lexical choices that recur throughout his opus to build a universe divided solely in terms of a distinction between what is genuine and what is artificial; and this distinction is a central player in all of his work. Arguably, therefore, attention to Andersen’s wider corpus, and to his use of lexis in it, are key to producing translations of Andersen’s work that reflect its essence.
Highlights
In this article, I briely contrast two authors, Hans Christian Andersen and Lewis Carroll both of whom who wrote “for children”, who use identiiably diferent techniques to create their ictional worlds
Children rarely had the facility and wherewithal to procure their own reading material; and the internet has made much reading material freely available for today’s child, and despite the availability of literature for children in public libraries, I suspect that books, e.g., for reading aloud and for reading in bed, are still oten acquired for a child by an adult
In any case, when my chosen authors were writing, there was no internet, and children were to a considerable degree dependent on their parents for entertainment of the kind that had to be paid for, including books. he point of my article is to show that of the diferent methods adopted by my chosen authors for creating a ictional world, one of them (Andersen) especially invites a translator to consider their individual translation choices in the context of the writer’s oeuvre as a whole; because of the need to illustrate this, the majority of my article is devoted to the author who uses this technique
Summary
I briely contrast two authors, Hans Christian Andersen and Lewis Carroll both of whom who wrote “for children”, who use identiiably diferent techniques to create their ictional worlds. He two authors that I have chosen to concentrate on, Lewis Carroll and Hans Christian Andersen, both build ictional worlds in their works, but they do it in rather diferent ways, and it is instructive to muse on that.
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