Translation, Literature, and Style

~ David Achodo

This first chapter of the thesis centers on the systematic investigation of the analysis of an author’s style in a translational context, how existing theories and debates have informed the discourse: Jean Boase-Beier’s stylistic approach (Translation and Style 2) and Eugene Nida and Charles Taber’s notion of equivalence (12),

and proposing a more holistic theoretical framework that facilitates stylistic analysis of translation by recognizing the mediator’s interventions (e.g., Laurence Venuti’s focus on the translator’s visibility (Invisibility 8), etc.

Chapter I available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399266992_Translation_Literature_and_Style.
Full Text Citation: Achodo, David. “Cultural Mediation: Challenges of Stylistic Translation in the Francophone African Novel.” Master’s Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2025. (Available at https://voljournals.utk.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=16266&context=utk_gradthes.

Also available with DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.23367.15522)

This text is archived by Zenodo with the DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19600646

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David Achodo is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Associate in French at the University of Tennessee, USA. He is the Primary Organizer and Founding Member of the “World Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Association,” University of Tennessee. A French, English, German, Fon, and Yoruba speaker, Achodo is a Scholar, Translator, Interpreter, Poet and Preacher.

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