Boosting Carmen Valero Garcés (1994) Model through Exploring Contemporary English Translations of Hedayat’s Surrealistic Masterpiece

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10.30465/copl.2021.6146

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Due to the challenges translators usually encounter while dealing with contemporary literary texts, assessment is considered to be a significant issue in literary studies. The paper aims at criticizing equivalent choice of Costello and Bashiri (translators of Hedayat’s Blind Owl) based on the semantic-lexical level in Garcés’ Model. The model consists of: Definition, Cultural (or functional) equivalence, Adaptation, (Grammatical) Expansion, Grammatical reduction, General versus particular or vice versa, and Ambiguity. Findings revealed the requirement of adding four more items to the model. Moreover, it was found that while Ambiguity had no occurrence in the corpus, Adaptation had the highest frequency. Furthermore, Bashiri never resorted to Deletion, while in Costello’s work two cases of this type were detected. In general, Bashiri’s quality of translation was recognized to be influenced by the translators’ frequent revision of his translation, as well as his access to Costello’s work.

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