Volume 127 (2015), Issue 2

This essay puts forward the hypothesis that Oswald Ducrot's theoretical model of polyphony, which is based on the principles of argumentation theory, is useful, too, for evaluating the adequate rendering of irony in translation. The analysis is...

The article examines the spatial structures in Claude Olliers La vie sur Epsilon (1972), which describes the failed exploration of an unknown planet. Epsilon is a barred and uncontrollable space whose emblematic sign is a gigantic labyrinth of...