POETIC TRANSLATION AS RE-CREATION: AUTHOR'S PLAY VS TRANSLATOR'S GAME
The purpose of this article is to examine poetic translation as re-creation. Proceeding from the key tenets of philosophical hermeneutics and the ludenic (from Lat. ludus-game) theory of literary translation the research focuses on the following binary opposition: translator's game vs. author's play. The case study provided is an analysis of a poem by Vera Polozkova, a contemporary Russian poet, and its English translation.