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The Position Occupied by Persian Translations of English Modern Short Stories in Persian Literary Polysystem

Literatures of various cultures interfere with one another so that each of them may become part of another’s literary polysystem. Accordingly, the researchers, in this study, attempted to recognize what position Persian literary polysystem allowed English literature in particular Persian translations of English modern short stories to occupy during 1990-2005. This study also intended to find ou...

A Pilot Experiment on Exploiting Translations for Literary Studies on Kafka's "Verwandlung"

We present a manually annotated word alignment of Franz Kafka’s “Verwandlung” and use this as a controlled test case to assess the principled usefulness of word alignment as an additional information source for the (monolingually motivated) identification of literary characters, focusing on the technically wellexplored task of co-reference resolution. This pilot set-up allows us to illustrate a...

A Supervised Learning Approach Towards Profiling the Preservation of Authorial Style in Literary Translations

Recently there has been growing interest in the application of approaches from the text classification literature to fine-grained problems of textual stylometry. This paper seeks to answer a question which has concerned the translation studies community: how does a literary translator’s style vary across their translations of different authors? This study focuses on the works of Constance Garne...

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Avicenna and his literary

Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...