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eprints-41525
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eprints
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| institution |
SOAS, University of London
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| collection |
SOAS Research Online
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| language |
English
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| language_search |
English
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| description |
In this article, I develop a model for world literature as a patchwork comprised of translations that cross boundaries of language, genre, style and culture. Through a close reading of the modernist Iranian poet Bijan Elahi’s (d. 2010) translations of a poem by the Sufi martyr and poet al-Ḥallāj (d. 922) and the play Cyrano de Bergerac by the French playwright Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), I demonstrate how translation can be used as a comparative method to conjoin, constellate and patch texts and ideas together regardless of their similarities or differences.
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| format |
Journal Article
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| author |
Tahmasebian, Kayvan
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| author_facet |
Tahmasebian, Kayvan
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| authorStr |
Tahmasebian, Kayvan
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| author_letter |
Tahmasebian, Kayvan
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| title |
Translation as Metonymy: Bijan Elahi’s Persian Variation on Cyrano de Bergerac
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| publisher |
Edinburgh University Press
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| publishDate |
2024
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| url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/41525/
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