Approaches to Translating Poetical Prose

Literary translation involves translating prose, poetry, and drama. Poetical prose is a special type of prose which is associated with emotions, images, romantic narratives. Prose can be called poetical from the linguistic point of view if several devices of the text organization are used: extended metaphors, intertextual allusions, text paradigmatization (W. Schmid). In this paper the emphasis is made on another device of prose poeticalness—stylistic convergence. It can be considered the most foregrounded device as convergence involves the combination of different stylistic devices. Such concentration creates difficulties in translation. This paper concentrates on determining the ways of rendering stylistic convergence as a device of poeticalness in the short stories of such famous British and American writers as O. Wilde, K. Chopin, D. Thomas, as well as in modern flash fiction stories. The conclusions are made concerning the structure of convergences, and the Ukrainian translations of the fragments of poetical prose are suggested. The most efficient translation strategies of rendering metaphors and alliteration (in classical prose) and oxymoronic phrases and play of words (in flash fiction) are formulated. The prospects of research of poetical prose translation are suggested