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Applicability of Steiner Hermeneutic Motion in Coleman Barks’ Translation of Rumi

Received: 28 April 2014     Accepted: 12 May 2014     Published: 14 June 2014
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Abstract

This article aims to study the applicability of Steiner hermeneutic motions in Colman Barks translation of Essential Rumi. At first, it introduces hermeneutic motions suggested by George Steiner which include initiative trust, aggression, embodiment and restitution; then studies Coleman Barks ’Translation of Rumi according to Steiner’ s hermeneutic motion. This article shows that Barks ‘translation is applicable in Steiner’ hermeneutic motion. He could pass the first three motions but he fails in the fourth motion and did not meet the fidelity principle in his work. The author suggests that it is better to call his work as aversion but not atranslation.

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 2, Issue 3-1)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (Models and Beliefs)

DOI 10.11648/j.ijll.s.2014020301.15
Page(s) 42-45
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Keywords

Hermeneutic Motion, Steiner, Colman Barks, Rumi

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  • Department of English Language Teaching, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran

  • Department of English Language , University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

  • Young Researchers and Elite Club, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran

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