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Handlungsführungen

English translation: plot-lines


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German term or phrase:Handlungsführungen
English translation:plot-lines
Entered by: Helen Shiner
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17:42 Jan 24, 2009
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Novels
German term or phrase: Handlungsführungen
Greetings,

Please see:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Leon

Einige Kritiker werfen daher Donna Leon nicht nur die Pflege von Stereotypen – etwa die „bekannten“ Gegensätze zwischen Nord- und Süditalienern oder die „bösen“ (unsympathischen, nazi-belasteten) Deutschen – vor, sondern auch die melodramatische Aufblähung der Handlungsführungen, in denen die Schilderungen des alltäglichen Familienlebens die Krimi-Plots in den Hintergrund drängen.

All the best, and many thanks,

Simon
SeiTT
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:19
plot-lines
Explanation:
would be how I'd see it.

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Note added at 1 day14 mins (2009-01-25 17:56:42 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks for the points, SeiTT
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:19
Grading comment
many thanks very good indeed
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +5plot-lines
Helen Shiner
3 +1narrative structure(s)
Bernhard Sulzer


  

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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
narrative structure(s)


Explanation:
or:
narratives
narrative style

These alternatives (narratives, narrative style or narrative structure(s)) focus on the "Führung" in Handlungsführungen (similar to Erzählungsweisen), the (inflated) way(s) in which the author tells the story/story strings/sub stories.
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/3046870?bs=1#marker_submit
Handlungsführungen
http://books.google.com/books?id=2TBBwOEo8NEC&pg=PA283&lpg=P...
Handlungsführungen / Kompositionen

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-His-Dreams-Donna-Leon/dp/043401...
Her knowledge of Brunetti’s water-logged beat is transmuted into vivid and evocative narratives:





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Note added at 22 hrs (2009-01-25 15:58:37 GMT)
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corr.: Erzählweise is the right term, not Erzählungsweise

another suggestion would be:
mode(s)/way(s) of presentation / the way(s) the story/stories is/are presented - oh well , that's more an explanation of the term




Bernhard Sulzer
United States
Local time: 08:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 55

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helen Shiner: I like this suggestion/these suggestions, too
2 hrs
  -> much appreciated, Helen! :)
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
plot-lines


Explanation:
would be how I'd see it.

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Note added at 1 day14 mins (2009-01-25 17:56:42 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks for the points, SeiTT

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 56
Grading comment
many thanks very good indeed

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kim Metzger: Me too.
7 mins
  -> Thanks, Kim

agree  Inge Meinzer
48 mins
  -> Thanks, Inge

agree  Ingeborg Gowans
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Ingeborg

agree  Ken Cox: also OK without the hyphen IMO
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Ken - looks like plot lines, plotlines and plot-lines all exist. Given a choice, maybe plotlines would be my preference.

agree  Rebecca Garber: I prefer without the hyphen, which may be US vs UK preference.
1 day1 hr
  -> Thanks, Rebecca - so do I.
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Changes made by editors
Jan 25, 2009 - Changes made by Helen Shiner:
Created KOG entryKudoZ term => KOG term
Jan 24, 2009 - Changes made by Cilian O'Tuama:
LevelNon-PRO => PRO


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