Prismatic Words: 'Plain, Too Plain'

This prismatic animation presents two appearances of ‘plain’ in Jane Eyre, Chapter 14, with multiple translations researched by Caterina Cappelli, Mary Frank, Jernej Habjan, Abhishek Jain, Eugenia Kelbert, Ida Klitgård, and Madli Kütt.

Details of the translations quoted are in the PDF attached to this record.

For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319