H2020Индивидуална стипендия2019–2021

TRANSMODERN · Untranslatable Modernity: Modern Literary Theory from Europe to Iran

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2019-08-07 → 2021-08-06
Финансиране от ЕС: 224 934 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Модерната литературна теория в Иран се анализира чрез грешките и пропуските при превода на европейски текстове. Това помага да се разбере как трудностите при превода всъщност оформят новите културни норми и разбирането за модерното в една страна.

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Резултати накратко

Untranslatable Modernity: Modern Literary Theory from Europe to Iran

The expansion of the spatial and temporal horizons of world literature cannot be conceptualised without reference to the central role of translation in the international reception of literary texts and critical norms. However, in the comparative studies of literary change, the role of translations is typically conceptualized as a vehicle of influence in hierarchical order that places original above translation and identifies translation with imitation. TRANSMODERN (Untranslatable Modernity: Literary Theory from Europe to Iran) explores the advent of modernist Iranian literary theory and its transformation from classical Persian rhetoric (balagha) into modern criticism (naqd) in the mid-nineteenth century. Although it is widely accepted that the cultural renovation in modern Iran has been driven by translation and adaptation of European literary critical norms, the mechanisms of this translational encounter have remained understudied and translations have been presumed to be self-evident in their meanings and implications. TRANSMODERN examines the invention of modern literary theory in Iran from the perspective of resistance to translation. The project reconceptualises Iranian literary modernism as a succession of translational failures, incomprehensible translations and empirical encounters with untranslatability. TRANSMODERN searches for “the modern” in the critical norms that are left out of translation in the form of distortions, mistranslations, retranslations, variations, and imaginary interpretations of European literary critical norms. By examining the modern Iranian translators’ encounters with European literary theory, TRANSMODERN theorizes untranslatability as the co-existence of the original and the translation and points to the ways in which untranslatability produces creative constellations, dialogic conjunctions, and alternative comparative paradigms in world literature.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

It is widely accepted that the advent of modernist Persian literary theory, its transformation from traditional Persian rhetoric (balagha) into modern criticism (qeritiqa) in the mid-nineteenth century, has been driven by translation and adaptation of European literary critical norms. While the central role of translation in importing and transmitting critical norms has been emphasized in the studies of the evolution of modern Persian literary theory, these studies usually take translation for granted without noticing that a major part of this literary and critical modernity has been shaped around the challenges of untranslatability. TRANSMODERN will innovatively theorize the shaping of modern Persian literary criticism around untranslatability through a close study of a wide range of Persian publications in literary criticism, from 1860s to 2000s. This will permit an understanding of how European critical norms affected Iranian literary systems and how the adaptation of these norms to a radically different non-European poetics transforms the way we think about and experience the literary form. TRANSMODERN will deploy and combine methods of archival research, translation methodologies and comparative qualitative and quantitative analysis. The main outputs will be three peer-reviewed articles, a critical monograph and academic and public presentations.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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