http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40107 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:04:03 GMT 2026-04-05T21:04:03Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40165 A Review of Natalie Crohn Schmitt, Performing Commedia dell’Arte, 1570–1630 (Routledge, 2019) Morawski, Piotr Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40165 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40164 “Whenever there’s too much technology”: A Review of Don DeLillo’s The Silence (Scribner, 2020) Tardi, Mark Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40164 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40163 Thinking about Thinking Nothing: A Review of Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism (MIT P, 2019) Querido, Pedro Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40163 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40161 Episodic Literary Movement and Translation: Ideology Embodied in Prefaces Khademnabi, Mir Mohammad This paper discusses translation practices from a historicist viewpoint, contextualizing them in their emerging “episode.” The latter is a concept drawn from sociology of literature and accounts for the rise of certain discourses and ideologies in a society. On the basis of the argument that translation practices are informed by the general literary and socio-cultural milieu in which they are produced and consumed (also known as ideology of representation), the paper studies the translators’ prefaces to three translations published between 1953 and 1978—a period dominated by Leftist and Marxist discourse in Iran. Drawing on a historically oriented model which holds that the translator’s ideology is revealed at the moment in which he/she chooses a text, and continues through the discourse he/she develops to translate that text, the research embarks on studying translation practices on two levels of choice mechanism and prefaces. Prefaces are discussed in the light of the dominant ideology of representation that is characterized by a revolutionary discourse. The research demonstrates that these translators opted for a strategy that incorporates the translations in the Persian cultural setting with minor changes in a way that politicizes the foreign literature. Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40161 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z