Intratextuality and translation: theory and examples

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Intratextuality and Translation Theoretical framework and examples Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni Lecturer in the NT Faculty of Theology, AUTH etsala@past.auth.gr

Intratextuality vs. Intertextuality every text is an intertext; other texts can be perceived within it at various levels, in various forms which may be more or less clearly discerned: the texts of earlier culture and those of its contemporary context. Every text is a new construction of past quotations (Roland Barthes, Texte (thorie du), in Encyclopaedia Universalis 17 (1996), 998) Intertextuality The whole field of relationships between one text and another which are visible to readers. Hypo-text, hyper-text / intertext Intertext Not an autonomous sign structure Parts of it refer to external texts -> it is not delimited - > it cannot be read in only one way It has got a twofold coherence: (a) intratextual (internal coherence of the text), and (b) intertextual (relation to other texts) Intratextuality All possible ways of internal coherence, organization, structure of the text that the reader is aware of Critical tool of a synchronic reading of the text An ideological apprehension - subjectivity

The part and the whole Intratextual approaches focus on the details as well as to the big picture and esp. to the ways these details interrelate and construct the whole The meaning of the text lies behind this interrelation "Reading intratextually means looking at the text from different directions (backwards as well as forwards), chopping it up in various ways, building it up again, contracting and expanding its boundaries both within the opus and outside it." (Alison Sharrock and Helen Morales (eds.), (2000). Intratextuality. Greek and Roman Textual Relation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 5)

The range of intratextuality In the text In a canon Out of the text

Internal intratextuality

Canonical intratextuality

Intertextuality

Various intratextual phenomena Paratext (the sum of various signs that introduce, frame, present, interrupt or conclude an existing text. The paratext generally carries out the function of accompanying or framing another text Re-lecture Multiple interpretations Allusions through the use of similar vocabulary and motifs Intratextuality & Translation Highlight the intratextual connections through the translation Uniformity in the translation of the interconnected parts The contribution of exegesis and of a synchronic reading of the biblical text The subjective of such a reading / translation The case of Mk 9:14-27 Context: after the transfiguration narrative between two announcements of the Messiahs death and resurrection Excorcism with some particular Markan features In the synoptic parallels these features and their intratextual significance is absent Mk 9, 26-27 26 , . 27 , . Intratextual connections The two announcements of Jesus death and resurrection that function as a narrative framework to the miracle The rising of Jairus daughter (5:35-43) The angels proclamation at the empty tomb (16:6)

The theological implications the abrupt ending of Mark the absence of the resurrected Lord the deductive style of Mark the implicit proclamation of Jesus resurrection in the gospel