Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Arts and Humanities

After Comparative Literature, Adrijana Marčetić / Translated by Masoud Farahmand and Pegah Farhangmehr

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Document Type : Book Reviews

Author

Zahra Haghshenas

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Gonabad, Gonabad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22077/islah.2025.8997.1603
Abstract
Due to the dynamic essence of comparative literature there are many debates about the definition of this field of study among academia. Adrijana Marcetic, a professor of comparative literature in Belgrad University, in her book "After the Comparative Literature" (1961), tries to solve some of these misunderstandings by writing about the history of comparative literature theories. She wrote the book on Serbian language and then after Greta Goetz translated it into English and then Masoud Farahmand and Pegah Farhangmehr retranslated from English to Persian. The Persian translation of the text is good, but there are some mistakes. For example, they altered the translation of some words like "hybridization" and " divergence." If we consider the problems of translating the pretranslated texts, it is apparent that translators faced a plethora of obstacles and there is insufficient time and ability to cover this area in its entirety. The researcher will analyse the book in this review.

Keywords

Comparative Literature
Literary Theories
Translation
Subjects
Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Arts and Humanities

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 16 August 2025

  • Receive Date 23 February 2025
  • Revise Date 13 June 2025
  • Accept Date 16 August 2025

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