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PROF Rebecca Gould's Outputs (8)

Inimitability versus translatability: The structure of literary meaning in Arabo-Persian poetics (2013)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2013). Inimitability versus translatability: The structure of literary meaning in Arabo-Persian poetics. The Translator, 19(1), 81-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2013.10799520

Building on the multivalent meanings of the Arabo-Persian tarjama (‘to interpret’, ‘to translate’, ‘to narrate in writing’), this essay examines the doctrine of Qur ’ānic inimitability (icjāz) across Arabic and Persian literary cultures as a way of e... Read More about Inimitability versus translatability: The structure of literary meaning in Arabo-Persian poetics.

The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides (2013)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2013). The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides. Iran and the Caucasus, 17(3), 275-293. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20130304

This essay investigates the challenges facing Caucasus philology, by which I mean the institutional capacity to conduct deep research into the literary cultures of Azerbaijan Republic, Georgia, Daghestan, and Chechnya. I argue that the philological a... Read More about The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides.