Aesthetic poetry and creative translations: a translational hermeneutic reading

Abstract This paper investigates the hermeneutic processes involved in translating instances of imagery in Arabic poetry into English across a period ranging between 1789 and 1993. It examines ten translations of two verse lines from Labīd’s Mu’allaqa. The paper does not aim to determine whether a g...

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Main Author: Raja Lahiani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2022-12-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01481-1