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Ortiz Garcia, JavierAuthor

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March 1, 2024
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Qué, quién, dónde, cuándo, por qué y cómo: las retraducciones de Moby-Dick en España

Publicated to:Meta. 66 (3 (décembre 2021)): 714-736 - 2021-01-01 66(3 (décembre 2021)), DOI: 10.7202/1088357ar

Authors: Javier Ortiz García

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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Author

Abstract

Este artículo aborda la retraducción de obras literarias desde una perspectiva teórica y práctica. Con el fin de establecer los principios teóricos que se van a emplear en el estudio, se desarrollan las seis variables textuales y contextuales propuestas por Alvstad y Assis (2015), basadas en el tradicional enfoque de las «Five W´s and One H», que ayudan a analizar en diferentes niveles traductológicos externos e internos las retraducciones que se quieren estudiar. Se establece pues qué es retraducción, quién retraduce y cuándo, dónde, por qué y cómo se retraduce. A continuación, se estudia y se coteja cada uno de esos seis criterios en las retraducciones publicadas en España de Moby-Dick (1851), de Herman Melville, obra que ha sido retraducida en dieciocho ocasiones desde que apareciera la primera versión en 1940. Los análisis de cómo las seis variables seleccionadas para este estudio actúan en las diferentes retraducciones de esta novela permiten, por una parte, conceptualizar y sistematizar el fenómeno de la retraducción; y, por otra, aportan a este estudio datos relevantes sobre la recepción y el impacto literario de MobyDick en España a través de estas dieciocho versiones aparecidas en ochenta años.

Keywords

Active vs. passive retranslationsMoby-dick in spainQuality educationRetranslationRetranslation variablesTranslation history

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Meta due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Philosophy.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.04, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-21, the following number of citations:

  • Scopus: 1
  • Google Scholar: 1
  • Open Alex: 1

Impact and social visibility

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/712482
Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 4 - Quality Education, with a probability of 73% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Javier Ortiz García) and Last Author (Javier Ortiz García).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Javier Ortiz García.