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Vagelpohl, Uwe (2010) Cultural accommodation and the idea of translation. Oriens, Vol.38 (No.1-2). pp. 165-184. doi:10.1163/187783710X536707 ISSN 0078-6527.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187783710X536707
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 | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures |
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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 | ||||
Official Date: | 1 January 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.38 | ||||
Number: | No.1-2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 20 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 165-184 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1163/187783710X536707 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 December 2015 |
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