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International Journal Of Literature And Languages

Peer Reviewed | Open Access | E-ISSN: 2771-2834
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A Comparative Stylistic Analysis Of Russian And Uzbek Translations Of Dreiser’s Fiction

A Comparative Stylistic Analysis Of Russian And Uzbek Translations Of Dreiser’s Fiction

  • Nasrullaeva Tozagul Suhrobovna
    Samarkand State Institute of Foreign languages, Senior lecturer, Department of Theory and translation studies, Uzbekistan
translation shifts Dreiser Russian translation Uzbek translation idiostyle

This article examines stylistic transformations in Russian and Uzbek translations of Theodore Dreiser’s novels, focusing on how each target language reconstructs or alters the author’s idiostyle. Dreiser’s narrative is marked by heavy descriptive syntax, philosophical commentary, naturalist detail, and psychologically motivated narration. These features frequently undergo modification in translation, especially across typologically distant languages such as Russian and Uzbek. The analysis draws on selected textual fragments from Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, An American Tragedy, and The Financier, comparing lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic changes in the target texts. The methodology combines comparative stylistics, translation-shift theory, and limited corpus-driven frequency observations. The findings reveal that Russian translations tend toward syntactic normalization and domestication, whereas Uzbek translations display explicitation, expansion, and semantic clarification. Both traditions modify Dreiser’s authorial commentary, though for different linguistic and cultural reasons.

Dreiser, T. (1900). Sister Carrie. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.

Dreiser, T. (1911). Jennie Gerhardt. New York: Harper & Brothers.

Dreiser, T. (1925). An American Tragedy. New York: Boni & Liveright.

Dreiser, T. (1912). The Financier. New York: Harper & Brothers.