Abstract This article re-evaluates the theoretical import of networks signification, one Antoine Berman’s twelve deforming tendencies in translation. Taking Jane Eyre as a case study, considers character description an example Bermanian network and traces physical appearance novel’s characters across its six Russian translations. Character represents that is traceable, depends on reader’s abili...

The present study sets out to investigate whether the position of literary works in the English literary polysystem influences the Iranian translators’ translational behavior at the textual level. Given the prominent position of canon and bestseller novels in English literary polysystem, the study intends to find out whether the translators of canon and bestseller novels are faithful to theirso...

For materials science, diamond crystals are almost unrivaled for hardness and a range of other properties. Yet, when simply abstracting the carbon bonding structure as a geometric bar-and-joint periodic framework, it is far from rigid. We study the geometric deformations of this type of framework in arbitrary dimension d, with particular regard to the volume variation of a unit cell.