Doyle’un “Speckled Band” İsimli Öyküsünün İki Türkçe Çevirisinin Bir Yorumlama Şemasıyla İncelenmesi

Abstract

This paper descriptively examines two Turkish translations – one published before Sherlock Holmes was popularized in visual media in the 2000s and one thereafter – of a Sherlock Holmes story entitled “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Arthur Conan Doyle to establish how the two translators handled certain aspects of the story deemed important for a literary interpretation. In determining these important aspects, it develops and uses an “interpretive scheme” inspired by Damrosch’s (2003) ruminations on “world literature.” The interpretive scheme contains three aspectual categories, i.e., “referential,” “genre-related” and “stylistic” aspects. The aim of this examination is twofold: first, it seeks to find out whether there are differences between the interpretations of these important aspects in the two translations and if so, whether these differences may be a result of the popularization of Sherlock Holmes. Second, it aims to explore the educational implications of translators’ choices in translating the aforementioned aspects, discussing how the use of an interpretive scheme in the analysis of translations may be helpful in choosing texts for the teaching of English literature to a Turkish-speaking audience.