Prismatic Words: 'The Interplay of "Walk" and "Wander" in Chinese and Italian'

This prismatic animation shows all the ways in which ‘walk’ and ‘wander’ are rendered in Chinese in Song Zhaolin’s 2005 translation, researched by Yunte Huang, and into Italian in the anonymous 1904 translation, researched by Matthew Reynolds.

Full 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