Oriental Studies, Comparison, and Translation at the Origins of the Italian Nation

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An Overview of the Early Journey of Azerbaijani Traditional Poetry into English Translations

This paper explores the role of translation in shaping intercultural understanding and the transmission of literary heritage, focusing specifically on the translation of Azerbaijani classical poetry into English. Drawing on key theoretical perspectives in translation studies and historical examples of literary transmis...

Crafting Free Russian-Soviet Literature in Italy

In the realm of published works, whether original literary creations or translations, the significance of paratexts and peritexts in shaping a text’s reception cannot be overstated. In the encyclopaedia entry titled Livre (1990) Jacques-Alexandre Breton, Henri-Jean Martin and Jean Toulet observe: “Tous les éléments con...

Missionary Translations: The Activities of the American Board in the Ottoman Empire (1820–1923)

Beginning in the first half of the nineteenth century, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) established a significant presence in the Ottoman Empire through its activities in translation, printing, and education. From the 1820s to the early twentieth century, the Board produced a broad corpu...

Bibliomigrancy from periphery to semi-periphery

Within the study of world literature and the sociology of translation, and with a Bourdieusian backdrop, this article deals with literary translation flows from the Hispanophone Caribbean to Sweden. The overall aim of the article is to explore the bibliomigrancy of this translation flow, i.e., how and by which mean...

A Comparative Study of the Three English Versions of Selected Lines from The Everlasting Regret from the Perspective of Berman’s Translation Ethics

Domestication and foreignization are two common strategies for translators to deal with cultural differences. Based on Berman’s translation ethics and twelve deformations, this paper takes Bai Juyi’s the Everlasting Regret (selected sentences) as the object of study, adopts close reading and comparative analysis, and s...