Composing a Persian "Letter": Sīmīn Dāneshvar's Rendition of Hawthorne.
Presents literary criticism for the book "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. While such hermeneutic complexity serves to endow Hawthorne's fiction with rich potency, it also serves to problematize attempts or rendering his canon into other languages. The author stresses that Hawthorne's nov...
| Publicado en: | Nathaniel Hawthorne Review Vol. 34; no. 1/2; pp. 81 - 103 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
Spring/Fall2008
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| Sumario: | Presents literary criticism for the book "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. While such hermeneutic complexity serves to endow Hawthorne's fiction with rich potency, it also serves to problematize attempts or rendering his canon into other languages. The author stresses that Hawthorne's novels and tales necessarily pose an uncommon challenge for translators whose target audiences may be wholly unfamiliar with locales. |
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