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Eastern Luminaries Disclosed to Western Eyes

A Critical Evaluation of the Translations of the "Mu‘allaqāt</I> into English and French (1782-2000)

Raja Lahiani (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

361 Seiten

2008
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03911-014-8 (ISBN)

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This book studies and evaluates the different translations of the Mu'allaqat, seven canonical pre-Islamic odes, from Arabic into English and French. First, it introduces the Mu'allaqat and the chief controversies related to their study in both Eastern and Western scholarship. It then presents the translators of the Mu'allaqat and their translations and closes with two typologies of the translations and translators presented. A number of criteria for the evaluation of translations of poetry are developed.
The book provides a comparative study of the English and French translations of the Mu'allaqat with a focus on a number of communicative priorities in the source text, based on stylistic devices that require a sound awareness of the culture of pre-Islamic Arabia, the main setting of the Mu'allaqat.
The author assesses the reliability of the criteria of evaluation and the translatability of the Mu'allaqat as a text that is remote from its translators in time, in place, and with respect to literary tradition.

The Author: Raja Lahiani has a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Sousse (Tunisia), an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of La Manouba (Tunisia), and a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is currently teaching English poetry, theories of translation and comparative stylistics at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Sfax, Tunisia.

Contents: The translatability of poetry - An integrated approach for the evaluation of translations - Criteria for the evaluation of translations of poetry - Prose translations versus verse translations of poetry - The manipulation of cultural differences in translation - Critical evaluation - The Mu'allaqat in the East and West - Achieving equivalence in the translation of poetry.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.4.2008
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	220 x 150 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	1782 • 2000 • Al- Muallaqat • Critical • Cultural Difference • Disclosed • Eastern • English • Evaluation • Eyes • French • Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Sonstige Sprach • HC/Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Sonstige Sprachen, Sonstige Literat • into • Lahiani • Luminaries • Mu'allaqat&lt • Mu‘allaqat&lt • Mu‘allaqāt&lt • Prose versus Poetry • Raja • Translations • Western
ISBN-10	3-03911-014-4 / 3039110144
ISBN-13	978-3-03911-014-8 / 9783039110148
Zustand	Neuware