Arabic Language and Literature
Ali Bashiri; Alireza Kaveh Nooshabadi
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, , Pages 1-22
Abstract
One of the important books written about contemporary area of Arabic poetry is “Semantic & Artistic Aspects of Contemporary Arabic Poetry” by Azlodin Esmaeili, the famous critic of Arabic literature. This book was published in 1391 and translated by Seyyed Hossein Seyyedi, and was titled ...
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One of the important books written about contemporary area of Arabic poetry is “Semantic & Artistic Aspects of Contemporary Arabic Poetry” by Azlodin Esmaeili, the famous critic of Arabic literature. This book was published in 1391 and translated by Seyyed Hossein Seyyedi, and was titled artistic and semantic aspects of contemporary Arabic poem of Taraneh Mashhad publications. One of the most important relationship bridges among languages, cultures, and literature of various countries is the translation. This study, investigating the relationship between substation and companionship that a famous linguist Saussurehas talked about, investigated the present translation. The present study has engaged in problems from the view of descriptive-interpretive method, by emphasizing the product-oriented (descriptive) translation studies. He has analyzed them, has presented the suggested translation. In general, it can be said that in spite of the efforts and a lot of translating problems in transferring contents from the source language into the target language, the translation of the mentioned book has confronted many difficulties that can be resulted from the loss of exact understanding or enough accuracy between the source language and the target language, and idioms have beneficial usages in the area of words and idioms in these languages.
Arabic Language and Literature
Ali Bashiri
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 1-23
Abstract
Literary criticism is one of the main and most challenging fields of literature courses. The book titled: “Literary Criticism: Its foundation and Methods”, which was published at the end of the first part of the twentieth century, is one of the textbooks that is taught in Arabic Language ...
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Literary criticism is one of the main and most challenging fields of literature courses. The book titled: “Literary Criticism: Its foundation and Methods”, which was published at the end of the first part of the twentieth century, is one of the textbooks that is taught in Arabic Language and Literature. The present study aims at providing a critical vision for the reader by analyzing the concepts and approaches discussed in the book. At first, it is attempted to discuss the points belong to the superstructure. Thereafter, the author’s statements are studied according to the order of the book organization. So, the foundation and concepts of literary criticism, literary types, and the methods of literary criticism will be considered. The results of this study indicate that most of the concepts and perspectives presented by the author, in contrary to his own claim; i.e., originality, do have roots in western ideas and the trace of western intellectuals and critics is observable in this work.
