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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations,” forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity (2021) in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn the wake of modernism studies’ global turn, this article considers the role of translation in fostering Iranian modernism. Focusing on the poetic translations of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), one of Iran’s most significant poet-translators, we demonstrate how untranslatability becomes a point of departure for his experimental poetics. Elahi used pre…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations,” forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity (2021) in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn the wake of modernism studies’ global turn, this article considers the role of translation in fostering Iranian modernism. Focusing on the poetic translations of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), one of Iran’s most significant poet-translators, we demonstrate how untranslatability becomes a point of departure for his experimental poetics. Elahi used pre…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Words That Offend Vs. Actions That Harm – Antisemitism, Racism, Islamophobia with Rebecca Gould,” Just Thinking Out Loud (podcast + video interview) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
Is there a dichotomy between tolerance and free speech? A discussion on free speech, hate crimes, and tolerance within the context of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism, along with the debate within the UK around the governmental definitions for these forms of bigotry.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations,” forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity (2021) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
In the wake of modernism studies’ global turn, this article considers the role of translation in fostering Iranian modernism. Focusing on the poetic translations of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), one of Iran’s most significant poet-translators, we demonstrate how untranslatability becomes a point of departure for his experimental poetics. Elahi used pre…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Bijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus” in the group
Translation Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoBijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus,” The Kenyon Review issue XLI (2019): 75-77.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Bijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus” in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoBijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus,” The Kenyon Review issue XLI (2019): 75-77.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Bijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus” in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoBijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus,” The Kenyon Review issue XLI (2019): 75-77.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Bijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus” on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
Bijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus,” The Kenyon Review issue XLI (2019): 75-77.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Confessions of a Comparatist (2019) in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay offers an autobiographical account of reading across literatures and languages. I compare the selves that I have developed in each of three languages—Russian, Persian, and Georgian—over the course of many years of reading. Refusing to make literary traditions coterminous with national identities, I reflect here on love through lan…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Confessions of a Comparatist (2019) in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay offers an autobiographical account of reading across literatures and languages. I compare the selves that I have developed in each of three languages—Russian, Persian, and Georgian—over the course of many years of reading. Refusing to make literary traditions coterminous with national identities, I reflect here on love through lan…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Confessions of a Comparatist” (2019) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
This essay offers an autobiographical account of reading across literatures and languages. I compare the selves that I have developed in each of three languages—Russian, Persian, and Georgian—over the course of many years of reading. Rejecting the tendency within scholarship and among the general public to make literary traditions coterminous wit…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Three Poems by Bijan Elahi, Two Lines (2019) in the group
Translation Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThree Poems by Bijan Elahi in the 25th-anniversary edition of Two Lines:
“My Scent that Doesn’t Pass” [بوی من که نمیآید]
“Dupin Detects” [Dupin Detects]
“Song of the Moon Hanging over the Fields of Damascus”
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Three Poems by Bijan Elahi, Two Lines (2019) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThree Poems by Bijan Elahi in the 25th-anniversary edition of Two Lines:
“My Scent that Doesn’t Pass” [بوی من که نمیآید]
“Dupin Detects” [Dupin Detects]
“Song of the Moon Hanging over the Fields of Damascus”
[معلقهی ماه روی دشتهای دمشق ] -
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Three Poems by Bijan Elahi, Two Lines (2019) in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThree Poems by Bijan Elahi in the 25th-anniversary edition of Two Lines:
“My Scent that Doesn’t Pass” [بوی من که نمیآید]
“Dupin Detects” [Dupin Detects]
“Song of the Moon Hanging over the Fields of Damascus”
[معلقهی ماه روی دشتهای دمشق ] -
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics, as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan,” The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, ed. Nile Green (University of California Press, 2019) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis chapter explores the legacy of the Iranian reformer and intellectual Abd al-Rahim Talibuf (1834-1911), as viewed from Daghestan, where he passed the last decades of his life. Talibuf’s eight books shaped the trajectory of subsequent Iranian intellectual history, and inspired the revolutionary constitutional movement. Talibuf’s example e…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics, as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan,” The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, ed. Nile Green (University of California Press, 2019) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis chapter explores the legacy of the Iranian reformer and intellectual Abd al-Rahim Talibuf (1834-1911), as viewed from Daghestan, where he passed the last decades of his life. Talibuf’s eight books shaped the trajectory of subsequent Iranian intellectual history, and inspired the revolutionary constitutional movement. Talibuf’s example e…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Three Poems by Bijan Elahi, Two Lines (2019) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
Three Poems by Bijan Elahi in the 25th-anniversary edition of Two Lines:
“My Scent that Doesn’t Pass” [بوی من که نمیآید]
“Dupin Detects” [Dupin Detects]
“Song of the Moon Hanging over the Fields of Damascus”
[معلقهی ماه روی دشتهای دمشق ] -
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics, as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan,” The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, ed. Nile Green (University of California Press, 2019) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
This chapter explores the legacy of the Iranian reformer and intellectual Abd al-Rahim Talibuf (1834-1911), as viewed from Daghestan, where he passed the last decades of his life. Talibuf’s eight books shaped the trajectory of subsequent Iranian intellectual history, and inspired the revolutionary constitutional movement. Talibuf’s example e…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The IHRA definition’s imprecision makes it a threat to free speech” (2018) in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoOn the untenable and unaccountable legality of this definition, and the dangers it poses to free speech, minority rights, and democratic legitimacy. Summarizes some points in “Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism as a Case Study in Censored Speech,” Law, Culture and the Humanities (2018) but with additional ref…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The IHRA definition’s imprecision makes it a threat to free speech” (2018) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
On the untenable and unaccountable legality of this definition, and the dangers it poses to free speech, minority rights, and democratic legitimacy. Summarizes some points in “Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism as a Case Study in Censored Speech,” Law, Culture and the Humanities (2018) but with additional ref…[Read more]
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