Metaphors and Translation

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_2544
dc.contributor.author	Meneghini Daniela
dc.title	Metaphors and Translation. Some Notes on the Description of Pain in a Twelfth Century Persian Poem
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The question of the translation of the figures of speech is a debated and complex field of studies. In the present work, after a brief introduction, I propose to ponder over with concrete examples on the translation of some figures of speech (metaphor, comparison and hyperbole) from Persian into Italian, taking as a source and representative text a passage from the poem Khosrow o Širin by Neẓāmi Ganjavi (XII century). This is a text of extraordinary imaginative and creative power, which represents a hard challenge for a translator, especially at a rhetoric level. Through the analysis of some verses that describe the pain of Princess Širin, I will try to verify methods, possibilities, strategies and defeats for their translation into Italian.
dc.relation.ispartof	Translating Wor(l)ds
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-12-31
dc.dateAccepted	2018-08-27
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-07-30
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-311-3/metaphors-and-translation/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-311-3/004
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9131
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-914X
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-312-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-311-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Classical Persian poetry
dc.subject	Classical Persian poetry
dc.subject	Figurative language
dc.subject	Figurative language
dc.subject	Metaphors
dc.subject	Metaphors
dc.subject	Sadness
dc.subject	Sadness
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Translation

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Metaphors and Translation

Some Notes on the Description of Pain in a Twelfth Century Persian Poem

Daniela Meneghini Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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The question of the translation of the figures of speech is a debated and complex field of studies. In the present work, after a brief introduction, I propose to ponder over with concrete examples on the translation of some figures of speech (metaphor, comparison and hyperbole) from Persian into Italian, taking as a source and representative text a passage from the poem Khosrow o Širin by Neẓāmi Ganjavi (XII century). This is a text of extraordinary imaginative and creative power, which represents a hard challenge for a translator, especially at a rhetoric level. Through the analysis of some verses that describe the pain of Princess Širin, I will try to verify methods, possibilities, strategies and defeats for their translation into Italian.

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Dec. 31, 2018

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Aug. 27, 2018

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July 30, 2018

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978-88-6969-312-0

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978-88-6969-311-3

Keywords: Metaphors • Sadness • Classical Persian poetry • Translation • Figurative language

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