The symbology of white and black colours in Endre Ady’s poetry and in the target language text variants of The White Silence and The Black Piano Cover Image

A fehér és a fekete szín szimbolikája Ady Endre költészetében, valamint a fehér csönd és a fekete zongora célnyelvi szövegvariánsaiban
The symbology of white and black colours in Endre Ady’s poetry and in the target language text variants of The White Silence and The Black Piano

Author(s): Julianna Lőrincz, Sarolta Simigné Fenyő
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: functional grammar; colour names; colour symbology; synesthesia; Ady’s poetry

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the study describes the typology of colour names in a functional grammatical framework. In the next part of the paper the associative use of colour is described in various stylistic image systems in two Ady verses and their English and Russian translations. In Ady’s poetry, however, colour symbology is not central; it is the idea that is primary for him, although he also used various colours in his synesthesia to express the sense of sight in his synesthesia. Several studies have been conducted on the symbology of black and white colours, so the authors focus primarily on these colours when examining Ady’s colour symbology in both the source and the target language texts.

  • Issue Year: 21/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 74-89
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Hungarian