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- Life Epistemology of Translation Studies
Author：Dijiang Luo
Abstract: The life epistemology of translation studies is based on an understanding and interpretation of textual life, source-textual life, target-textual life and afterlife along with their interrelationships. A text continues to live in a new translational environment. In this sense, the generation of translation is the practical embodiment of t...
Column：Translation Studies 136-144 Details
- A Corpus-Driven Study of the Meaning-Shift Unit of Chinese Intensifiers
Author：Guobing Liu, Xiaolian Zhang
Abstract: Meaning-Shift Unit Theory is the latest theory of meaning in corpus linguistics, which inherits and develops the theoretical connotations of the Extended Unit of Meaning. This paper analyzes the meaning units of Wanquan in the Chinese National Corpus (the CNC, also known as Guojia Yuwei Yuliaoku), including ...
Column：Linguistic Studies 145-156 Details
- The Visual Arts of Iran in the Islamic Period
Author：Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom
Abstract: The visual arts created in Iran from the seventh century to the present when Islam was a major presence are some of the finest made anywhere. This essay surveys that copious production. It opens by delineating four themes that run through Persian art of the Islamic period: the use of writing in Arabic script; the lively depiction of...
Column：Persian Literature and Culture Studies 003-011 Details
- Western Iranian Metalwork during 12th and Early 13th Centuries
Author：Taher Rezazadeh
Abstract: From the beginning of the 12th century until the Mongol invasion in the second decade of the 13th century, the province of Khurasan in north east of greater Iran was the main center for producing luxurious inlaid bronzes and brasses. The condition of metalwork in other cultural and industrial regions and centers of g...
Column：Persian Literature and Culture Studies 012-021 Details
- 19th-Century Persian Book Illustration: Portraying the Lovers of The Thousand and One Nights
Author： Elham Etemadi
Abstract: The Thousand and One Nights was illustrated under the supervision of the royal court painter, Sani’ ol-Molk, between 1854 and 1859 in Iran. In this article, I analyze the only image in the manuscript that displays the two main characters of story, Shahrzad and Shahrbaz, in sexual relati...
Column：Persian Literature and Culture Studies 022-030 Details
- The History of Photography in Iran
Author：Ali Behdad
Abstract: In this article, I provide a general history of the way photography was developed in Iran, and discuss some examples of early photography to elaborate the way amateur and professional Iranian photographers used the new medium to represent and document themselves and their cultures. Nineteenth-century Iran, I suggest, offers a unique context in ...
Column：Persian Literature and Culture Studies 031-041 Details
- What Is Literature? The Rise of a Global Literary Discourse
Author：Aria Fani
Abstract: This essay argues that literature as a conceptual category is not timeless or universal. In the case of Iran and Afghanistan, the formation of literature, or adabiyat, was the outcome of early twentieth-century associational culture that introduced new ways of naming, understanding, and appreciating textual production. ...
Column：Persian Literature and Culture Studies 042-049 Details
- Broken Lyres: Epic, Performance, and History in Mehdi Akhavan Sales' "Akhar-e Shahnameh"
Author：Marie Huber
Abstract: In “Akhar-e Shahnameh” by Mehdi Akhavan Sales (1929-1990), one of the foremost representatives of “New Poetry” in Iran, a fictive orality is staged: The poem becomes decipherable only to a reader attuned to the tradition of epic storytelling. This paper examines the relationship betwe...
Column：Persian Literature and Culture Studies 050-061 Details
- Iranian Children's Literature after the Islamic Revolution of 1979
Author：Laetitia Nanquette
Abstract: This article traces the history of Iranian children’s literature since the revolution of 1979, the importance of the institutions supporting it, as well as its reception globally, explaining its relative success. The institutions promoting children’s literature in the post-revolutionary period are noteworthy b...
Column：Persian Literature and Culture Studies 062-070 Details
- Studies on Qian Zhongshu's "?Theory of Sublimity" in the Past 40 Years (1979-2019): Retrospect and Prospect
Author：Chengfa Yu, Yihui Zhuang
Abstract: Qian Zhongshu's "Theory of Sublimity" has been acclaimed as the highest ideal and standard of literary translation in the past 40 years (1979-2019). The Chinese researchers have made unremitting efforts and remarkable achievements in studying "Theory of Sublimity" by means of investigating its sources, expounding its connotation, evaluating its function, and comparing it with other translation thoughts. However, there are some imbalances featured by "ten more's and ten fewer's” in research teams, methods and results...
Column：Translation Studies 071-081 Details