Come tradurre il metadiscorso letterario. Esempi di scrittura femminile nell'Ottocento austriaco

This essay entitled †œCome tradurre il metadiscorso letterario. Esempi di scrittura femminile nell'Ottocento austriaco/How to translate literary metadiscourse. Examples of nineteenth-century Austrian women's writing†� looks at the interlinguistic translation of non-fiction texts focusing on literary metadiscourse. More specifically, it does not analyse critical texts and/or methods, but rather functional writings of a strong pragmatic nature, which are also considered very important literary testimonies because they were written by women writers who made aesthetic expression their primary aim. The materials selected for the linguistic-textual analysis, spanning from the late eighteenth century to the mid nineteenth century, were written by women who worked in the theatre and used the pen as a tool for their intellectual and financial emancipation. The necessity of finding a way to publish their works induced them to use writing strategies connoted by special stylistic elements and rhetorical devices. These strategies aimed at favouring the acceptance and diffusion of the publishing offers of which these †œparatexts†� were the justifying moment. The †œart of writing†� is an experience that takes on many different contours, not devoid of relapses when selecting the translation strategies. In formal terms, the testimonies belong to an area of expressive mode similar to autobiographical testimonies. The historical period and the country of origin of the writers made it necessary to use an approach that could interconnect the diachronic plan with the diatopic dimension, whilst taking into account the diamesic components of a writing that was born in the theatre for the theatre and that must relate with the theatre and its regular visitors. The traductological model applied gets its fundamental lines from the reflections of textual linguistics and from the integrated/multi-disciplinary approach of †œdynamic prototypology†�.