Arabic literature in translation

Name: BCLT Research Seminar with Michael Cooperson – French Word Games, “Untranslatable” Arabic, and Global English
Start: 2022-05-11T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-05-11T18:30:00+01:00

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October 2021
Mini Symposium on Arabic Literature in Translation

October 22, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

This mini symposium proposes to investigate modern Arabic literature in translation. The translation of Arabic texts has a complicated history, incorporating publishers’ reticence to publish translations, politics, gender, as well as difficulties of situating Arabic literature within the all-encompassing world literature.
May 2022
BCLT Research Seminar with Michael Cooperson – French Word Games, “Untranslatable” Arabic, and Global English

May 11, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Al-Hariri’s Impostures is a twelfth-century collection of fifty tales written entirely in rhyme. Because of the rhyme, not to mention the riddles, puns, lipograms, and rare vocabulary, it has routinely […]

October 2021

May 2022