A Review of the Art of Translation : An Analysis of 'the Lament of Baba Tahir' / Mansoureh Bidaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bidaki, Mansoureh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persian language--Translating.

Persian language.

Persian language--Dialects.

Bābā-Ṭāhir, active 11th century.

Bābā-Ṭāhir.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This book is a review of the couplets of Baba Tahir, a famous poet of ancient Iran, as translated by Edward Heron Allen in 1901. Allen did so without access to the authentic phonetic tables of the poet's age, which is admirable in its own right; because some dialect words are specific to the speakers of the same geographical region, based on the phonetics associated with them, and despite the written or phonetic similarity with the dialect words of other regions, they have different meanings. Background about the challenges of poetry translation is given in the introduction, and then, the poet's life, character and couplets are described in detail based on native and non-native sources. A selection of literal translations of dialect words based on the theories of Venuti (1965) and Baker (1992), and the implied meanings of the couplets, are also reviewed. This book is useful for English students who interested in poetry, and other students who study the translation of literary texts.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Abstract

List of Abbreviations

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Bidaki, Mansoureh A Review of the Art of Translation

ISBN:

1-5275-2525-2