The aim of this essay is to propose a view literary translation as “performance”, i.e., both an art and activity endowed with specific affinities those the actor or musician. Actors musicians offer subjective interpretations dramatic texts musical scripts that they present on stage in concert hall. Likewise, translator presents her/his interpretation rendering text readers whose mother tongue c...

This thesis attempts to create a more comprehensive catalogue of the appearance of the word aglæca throughout the Old English corpus. While the majority of these instances of the word appear in Beowulf, it also appears in such texts as Christ and Satan, Juliana, The Whale, Andreas, Daniel, Elene, and several of the Riddles from The Exeter Book. While Klaeber’s widely accepted binary glossing of...

“maqamat” ,written by badi al-zaman hamadani, known as “maqamqt al-kodyah”, is a book written in 4th century (hijra) and the scholars have paid attention to it from that age till now. also the structure trait of maqamat has absorbed effort of researchers to itself and lead them to have less consider to the meaning aspect of this book. therefore some scholars believe that the badi al- zaman’s ef...

In this article, we consider Zipf-Mandelbrot law as applied to texts in natural languages. We present a simple model of dependence of the law on the text size, which is featured by variable power-law tail and constant ratio of the most frequent words. As a result we derive several closed formulas, which accord with empirical data qualitatively and partially quantitatively. For example, there ap...

The generation of formal poetry involves both complex creativity usually exercised by a human poet and strict algorithmic restrictions regarding the metrical structure of the poem determined by literary tradition. Starting from a generating system that enforces automatically the metrical restrictions, this paper presents a model for the literary style of a user based on four key features for us...

The TRANSCOMP Dataset of Literary Translations is a collection document-level word frequencies sampled from 10,631 translations into English global literary fiction published since 1950, together with historically matched parallel corpus 10,682 fictional works originally in English. We provide CSV files frequency counts for 10,000-word samples taken each text. associated metadata available sepa...