Migrating Texts : Circulating Translations Around the Ottoman Mediterranean
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
ISBN-10
1474438997
ISBN-13
9781474438995
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 31st, 2019
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
702 grams
Dimensions
24.20 x 16.30 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Translation & interpretationLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Provides nine detailed case studies of translation between and among European and Middle-Eastern languages and between genres.
Fénelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, excoriated French novels circulating through the Ottoman Empire in Greek, Arabic and Turkish - literary translation at the eastern end of the Mediterranean offered worldly vistas and new, hybrid genres to emerging literate audiences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Whether to propagate ''national'' language reform, circulate the Bible, help audiences understand European opera, argue for girls'' education, institute pan-Islamic conversations, introduce political concepts, share the Persian Gulistan with Anglophone readers in Bengal, or provide racy fiction to schooled adolescents in Cairo and Istanbul, translation was an essential tool. But as these essays show, translators were inventors. And their efforts might yield surprising results.
Whether to propagate ''national'' language reform, circulate the Bible, help audiences understand European opera, argue for girls'' education, institute pan-Islamic conversations, introduce political concepts, share the Persian Gulistan with Anglophone readers in Bengal, or provide racy fiction to schooled adolescents in Cairo and Istanbul, translation was an essential tool. But as these essays show, translators were inventors. And their efforts might yield surprising results.
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