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Beyond Orientalism : when Marceline Desbordes-Valmore carried Saʿdi’s Roses to France
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Hartley, Julia Caterina (2019) Beyond Orientalism : when Marceline Desbordes-Valmore carried Saʿdi’s Roses to France. Iranian Studies, 67 (10). pp. 6858-6867. doi:10.1080/00210862.2019.1626223 ISSN 0021-0862.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2019.1626223
Abstract
This article follows a thread of translation and intertextual dialogue, taking us from the thirteenth-century Persian poet Saʿdi to the nineteenth-century French poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. It reads Desbordes-Valmore’s poem ‘Les roses de Saadi’ (1860) with the two passages from Saʿdi’s Golestān from which it was inspired, shedding new light on the poem’s metapoetic subtext. The original Persian text is compared to two French translations that were circulating at the time when Desbordes-Valmore was writing. This analysis of the Golestān’s reception forms the basis for the argument that Desbordes-Valmore recast in secular terms Saʿdi’s discourse on poetic language, emphasizing the continuity, rather than difference, between her concerns and Saʿdi’s. The case of Desbordes-Valmore thus reveals a forgotten facet of nineteenth-century French engagements with Middle Eastern culture: one of identification and literary influence, which existed alongside the processes of “othering” for which the period is better known.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Iranian Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0021-0862 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 67 | ||||||||
Number: | 10 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 6858-6867 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/00210862.2019.1626223 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Iranian Studies on 01/07/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00210862.2019.1626223 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 June 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 January 2021 | ||||||||
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