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Bakhtiyari folktales: selections from Afsanah'ha-yi Chahar Mahal Va Bakhtiyari

Taylor, Christopher Lee
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413460586

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2005, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
This thesis, at least on first glance, is a partial translation of Afsanah 'ha-yi Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiyari, originally compiled by Ali Asmand and Hussein Khosravi, from the original Persian to English. The text is a compilation of folktales and fairytales found among the Bakhtiyari tribe of Western Iran and in the province of Chahar Mahal. While a simple translation of folktales may seem, at least on the surface, as fairly straightforward it, it is a far more complicated process than is readily apparent. While the end results are translations of Bakhtiyari folktales, the process and exercise of translation is hidden within the stories themselves. It is insufficient to merely read the stories in Persian and directly translate them into English. Aside from the fact that many terms used in Persian, not to mention idiomatic phrases and dialectic use of vocabulary, do not translate directly into English and, even if this were possible, a translation of this sort would be awkward and unpleasant to read. Producing these translations required an understanding of these issues and an attempt to render them into English prose in a fashion that is pleasant to read and which brings the reader closer original text and to the original storytellers’ intents. Care was taken so that the innate exotic flavor of the stories, and the style of their telling, would be preserved whenever possible and presented in such a fashion as to be palatable and readily comprehensible to the reader of the English. These were the methods and processes used to produce these few translations, and if the work of the translator is performed well, then more of the original text will be readily apparent to the reader than the writing style of the translator.
M. Mills (Advisor)
Dick Davis (Committee Member)
93 p.
Near Eastern Studies

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  • Taylor, C. L. (2005). Bakhtiyari folktales: selections from Afsanah'ha-yi Chahar Mahal Va Bakhtiyari [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413460586

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Taylor, Christopher. Bakhtiyari folktales: selections from Afsanah'ha-yi Chahar Mahal Va Bakhtiyari. 2005. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413460586.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Taylor, Christopher. "Bakhtiyari folktales: selections from Afsanah'ha-yi Chahar Mahal Va Bakhtiyari." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413460586

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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