"The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousan…
This is the first study to examine the Arabic translations of a number of major modern poems in the English language, in particular T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. With case studies dedicated to the Arab translators who were themselves modernist p…
Introduction -- 1. Modern Arabic Poetry and English Poetry -- 2. The Arabic Waste Lands -- 3. Translating Whitman's Song of Myself into Arabic -- 4. Al-Sayyab's Translational Contribution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. "This is the first study to examine the Arabic translations…
This is the first study to examine the Arabic translations of a number of major modern poems in the English language, in particular T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. With case studies dedicated to the Arab translators who were themselves modernist po…
This is the first study to examine the Arabic translations of a number of major modern poems in the English language, in particular T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. With case studies dedicated to the Arab translators who were themselves modernist po…
