Zahra Bavandpoori; Shahriar Hemmati; Toraj Zeinivand; Ali Salimi
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Youssef Hussein Bakkar (1942-present) is a writer, researcher, and literary critic among scholars who have attempted to criticize Arabic translations of Khayyam's quatrains through his knowledge of translation techniques. The present study aims to descriptively-analytically criticize his views on these ...
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Youssef Hussein Bakkar (1942-present) is a writer, researcher, and literary critic among scholars who have attempted to criticize Arabic translations of Khayyam's quatrains through his knowledge of translation techniques. The present study aims to descriptively-analytically criticize his views on these translations based on seven features (rationalization, clarification, theological terms, qualitative ennoblement, quantitative impoverishment, idiom destruction, language system destruction), which are the deforming view of Antoine Bremen (1942-1991), the French pioneer theorist. The findings of the study indicate that Bakkar used his criticism in his reviews and his views are often humorous, devoid of reasoning, and do not follow any particular theory. Adopting a linguistic approach by Bakkar shows that his critique of the method is consistent with the components of Antoine Berman's theory, but Bakkar’s linguistic approach lacks the application of theoretical issues. He does not present his views in a coherent, solidly structured theoretical framework.
Mohammad Reza Azizi; Tayyebeh Ahmadpour; Hassan Emami; Moradali Vaezi
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Wine is an old and rich symbol in Persian literature which has dedicated itself a wide range of conflicting thoughts. This symbol in Iranian culture allows the addressee to have a materialistic or spiritual understanding of it according to his or her suspicion and character. This research seeks to select ...
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Wine is an old and rich symbol in Persian literature which has dedicated itself a wide range of conflicting thoughts. This symbol in Iranian culture allows the addressee to have a materialistic or spiritual understanding of it according to his or her suspicion and character. This research seeks to select the common Rubaiyat among three Arab translators about wine and vinosity and compare the translators’ understandings about wine. Invitation to drinking is chosen because wine in Khayyam Rubaiyat is the symbol for seizing time and it is considered as an image of thought and the main theme for the poet. How did the translator react to joyfulness and invitation to drink wine by Khayyam? What effects do the taste and ideology of the translator have in rendering this motif in Khayyam poetry in Arabic, and what intricacies are followed by their translations? This research is limited to three translations of Ebrahim Qoreyz, Ahmad Safi and Ahmad Najafi. Each translator employing strategies such as a stipulation, omission, and refined thought has conveyed his interpretation and has placed his character and emotion in the target language during the process of transmission. This happens because the translator cannot translate free of his character even in literal translations. The research method used in this paper is descriptive-analytic with a lexical approach.
