Vagelpohl, Uwe. (2010) Cultural accommodation and the idea of translation. Oriens, Vol.38 (No.1-2). pp. 165-184. ISSN 0078-6527

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Abstract

The translations produced in the course of the Greek-Arabic translation movement of the ninth to eleventh century amply document the struggles of generations of mostly Christian translators to render an extraordinarily wide range of Greek and Syriac source texts into Arabic. When dealing with material that relied on unavailable cultural background knowledge or was, for a variety of reasons, unacceptable to the translator or his audience, translational technique alone was of little help. With a variety of examples, this paper seeks to illustrate how the translator of Aristotle's Rhetoric dealt with such situations, how his solutions influenced the reception and commentary tradition of this work and explores the implications for an understanding of translation beyond catchwords such as “literal,” “free” and “mistranslation.”

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Greek literature -- Translations into Arabic -- History and criticism
Journal or Publication Title:	Oriens
Publisher:	Brill
ISSN:	0078-6527
Date:	1 January 2010
Volume:	Vol.38
Number:	No.1-2
Number of Pages:	20
Page Range:	pp. 165-184
Identification Number:	10.1163/187783710X536707
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/38551

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