Naser Zare
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Iḥsān Abbās (1920-2003), Palestinian literary scholar, critic, editor, translator and historian, was a renowned and unique scholar in the contemporary era. He produced various valuable works including translation, editing and literary criticism. One of his critical works is Trends in Contemporary ...
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Iḥsān Abbās (1920-2003), Palestinian literary scholar, critic, editor, translator and historian, was a renowned and unique scholar in the contemporary era. He produced various valuable works including translation, editing and literary criticism. One of his critical works is Trends in Contemporary Arabic Poetry. Since its first publication in 1977, this book has been a reputable source in the field of contemporary Arabic poetry criticism, especially the poems of pioneering poets. This book has eight chapters and one appendix. Those eight chapters deal with the criticism of contemporary Arabic poetry. That appendix contains some poems which were examined in the eight chapters. This book was translated into Persian by Habib Allāh Abbāsi with a preface and footnotes in 2005. This translation is a hasty, confused and full of obvious faults and errors including neglecting Arabic grammar, mistranslating words, terms and sentences, neglecting context, register and subject and leaving out parts of the book. The method that is used to analyze this translation is a contrastive approach. What will be studied in this paper is only the tip of the iceberg. In other words, errors in the translated text, especially in the prose parts of the book, show us that they are not in many cases in harmony with the original Arabic text but are in total contrast with it. The errors in this translation are to such an extent that retranslation or at least a total revised edition is an inevitable necessity.
Ahmad Heidari; Aliasghar Ghahramani Moghbel; Nasser Zare; Moslem Zamani
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Theoreticians have regarded poem translation as the most challenging types of translation. The term ‘untranslatable’ is the title, which implies a challenge in this literary work. The challenge is due to the occurrence of major changes in the form and structure of poetry translation, which ...
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Theoreticians have regarded poem translation as the most challenging types of translation. The term ‘untranslatable’ is the title, which implies a challenge in this literary work. The challenge is due to the occurrence of major changes in the form and structure of poetry translation, which departs it from the original text. The literary elegance and intricacy of the poem have encouraged the translation theorists to evaluate the translation from the equality and balance gate regarding the form and structure and pay special attention to the different linguistic forms of two languages (source and target) in the translation process. In this article, using a descriptive-analytical method and comparing the source and target texts, we aim to examine the principle of quantity as one of the important principles in creating equilibrium and equality between source and target texts. At that point, the concept ‘quantity’ in Abu al-Fath al-Busti (4th century) Nuniyyah’s translation from Arabic to Persian is evaluated. This elegy has been translated to Persian by Badredin Jajarmi - semi-free translation - in the 7th century. The results indicate that; although the translator has attempted to keep quantity, the linguistic system features of target language have led him to quantitative increasing. The quantitative increase is evident in two levels of lexicon and semantics in the translation.
