Applying Translation Theory to a Corpus-Based Analysis of The Count of Monte Cristo
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2014
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Alexandre Dumas pere's well-known 19th-century novel, Lecomte de Monte-Cristo [The
Count of Monte Cristo], has been twice translated from the original French into English, in
1846 and again in 1996. In this thesis, I analyze corpora composed of French and English
editions of Dumas's novel through the lens of modern translation theory. I use quantitative
and qualitative methods drawn from corpus-based translation studies to conduct both a
word frequency analysis and a theoretically grounded close reading of selected passages,
ultimately finding evidence for several hypotheses about translational strategies in English.