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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form (2018) in the group
Translation Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. I propose the methodology of…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form (2018) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. I propose the methodology of…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form (2018) in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. I propose the methodology of…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form (2018) in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. I propose the methodology of…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021) in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoDrawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naimy’s literary output, we shed light on the role of multilingualism in generating literary identit…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021) in the group
Immigration and the Arts on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoDrawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naimy’s literary output, we shed light on the role of multilingualism in generating literary identit…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoDrawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naimy’s literary output, we shed light on the role of multilingualism in generating literary identit…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021) in the group
Exile Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoDrawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naimy’s literary output, we shed light on the role of multilingualism in generating literary identit…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Antiquarian Imagination in Multilingual Daghestan (2021) in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis article compares three key texts in Daghestani Islamicate literature by Persian Azeri writer Bākīkhānūf (d. 1847), Lezgi polymath al-Alqadārī (d. 1910), and Qumyq (Turkic) biographer al-Durgilī (d. 1935), with a view to understanding how their authors conceptualized their role as chroniclers of times past. I draw in particular on Italia…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Antiquarian Imagination in Multilingual Daghestan (2021) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis article compares three key texts in Daghestani Islamicate literature by Persian Azeri writer Bākīkhānūf (d. 1847), Lezgi polymath al-Alqadārī (d. 1910), and Qumyq (Turkic) biographer al-Durgilī (d. 1935), with a view to understanding how their authors conceptualized their role as chroniclers of times past. I draw in particular on Italia…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Antiquarian Imagination in Multilingual Daghestan (2021) in the group
Comparison on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis article compares three key texts in Daghestani Islamicate literature by Persian Azeri writer Bākīkhānūf (d. 1847), Lezgi polymath al-Alqadārī (d. 1910), and Qumyq (Turkic) biographer al-Durgilī (d. 1935), with a view to understanding how their authors conceptualized their role as chroniclers of times past. I draw in particular on Italia…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
Drawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naimy’s literary output, we shed light on the role of multilingualism in generating literary identit…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Antiquarian Imagination in Multilingual Daghestan (2021) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
This article compares three key texts in Daghestani Islamicate literature by Persian Azeri writer Bākīkhānūf (d. 1847), Lezgi polymath al-Alqadārī (d. 1910), and Qumyq (Turkic) biographer al-Durgilī (d. 1935), with a view to understanding how their authors conceptualized their role as chroniclers of times past. I draw in particular on Italia…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Dancing in Chains: Bijan Elahi on the Art of Translation (2019) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
Bijan Elahi on the Art of Translation (collected fragments).
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form” (2018) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
This essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. I propose the methodology of…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Temporality of Desire in Ḥasan Dihlavī’s ʿIshqnāma (2021) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
This article traces the conception of love and desire (ʿishq) in a Persian verse romance by the Indo-Persian poet Ḥasan Dihlavī, known as ʿIshqnāma (composed in 1301). ʿIshqnāma narrates a tragic and unconsummated love affair between a young Hindu couple. As the two protagonists immolate themselves in what is at once a reworking of the Indic c…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould started the topic Linking to social media on profile in the discussion
Feedback and Feature Requests on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoWe have the ability to link to a number of social media on our profile, but I want to suggest the addition of a few more: YouTube (for those with YouTube channels); Medium (the blogging site); Instagram. Also the ability to link to a newsletter site such as Substack or Revue would be great if there is space.
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