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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lahiani, Raja

Titel

Aesthetic poetry and creative translations: a translational hermeneutic reading

Ist Teil von

• Humanities & social sciences communications, 2022-12, Vol.9 (1), p.460-9, Article 460

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract This paper investigates the hermeneutic processes involved in translating instances of imagery in Arabic poetry into English across a period ranging between 1789 and 1993. It examines ten translations of two verse lines from Labīd’s Mu’allaqa . The paper does not aim to determine whether a given translation is correct—its purpose is, rather, to use translational hermeneutics as a key analytical tool to identify which translation products may be considered acceptable within the scope of this theory. Translational hermeneutics conceives of translation as re-formulation and, hence, re-creation. The notion of identity is minimised, in translational hermeneutics as well as in this study, by investigating how a source text’s aesthetic message can assume a different form when translated. The assessment of different translations in this paper’s case study demonstrates that translating responsibly is, first and foremost, translating responsively.