عنوان

Vulgar Pleasures

شماره

LA119510

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Vulgar Pleasures

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Anna Ziajka Stanton

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This essay examines Richard Francis Burton's The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885-1888), an English translation of the Arabic Alf Laylah wa-Laylah stories that was enormously popular in its own time and continues to be widely admired today - despite the fact that Burton plagiarized extensively from the work of another translator. I argue that Burton's Nights is neither a faithful nor an original translation of the Arabic stories, but rather an English text whose aesthetic enjoyment is proffered as an affective engagement with the literary aesthetics of the source text, translated through Burton's own pleasurable experiences of Arabic literary language. Framing the reception of Burton's Nights, through the Arabic concept of ṭarab, as a process of iterative cycles of pleasure that move between the translator and his readers, I contend that what makes Burton's Nights enjoyable to read also makes it scandalous to the world literary system within which it has circulated. This essay examines Richard Francis Burton's The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885-1888), an English translation of the Arabic Alf Laylah wa-Laylah stories that was enormously popular in its own time and continues to be widely admired today - despite the fact that Burton plagiarized extensively from the work of another translator. I argue that Burton's Nights is neither a faithful nor an original translation of the Arabic stories, but rather an English text whose aesthetic enjoyment is proffered as an affective engagement with the literary aesthetics of the source text, translated through Burton's own pleasurable experiences of Arabic literary language. Framing the reception of Burton's Nights, through the Arabic concept of ṭarab, as a process of iterative cycles of pleasure that move between the translator and his readers, I contend that what makes Burton's Nights enjoyable to read also makes it scandalous to the world literary system within which it has circulated.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

45-64

عنوان

Journal of World Literature

شماره جلد

6/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2405-6480

اصطلاح موضوعی

aesthetics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Arabian Nights

اصطلاح موضوعی

Arabic literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Richard Francis Burton

اصطلاح موضوعی

ṭarab

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Anna Ziajka Stanton

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/24056480-20201002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y