Magin_Edward-thesis

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.......................................................................................................xvii
List of Tables .............................................................................................................xxii
List of Figures .......................................................................................................... xxiii
Abbreviations and Other Conventions ....................................................................xxiv
Pronouns in Northern Kurdish................................................................................xxiv
Prefixes, infixes, suffixes, particles: ..........................................................................xxv
1. Introduction .............................................................................................................1
1.1 General ................................................................................................................1
1.2 Historical overview..............................................................................................2
1.3 The people and the language ................................................................................3
1.4 The sociolinguistic situation.................................................................................3
2. Literature review .....................................................................................................5
2.1 History of Kurdish and Kurdish-related poetry, with historical context.................5
2.1.1 Before 1920..................................................................................................7
2.1.1.1 The Botan school....................................................................................7
2.1.1.2 The Goran school .................................................................................10
2.1.1.3 The Nali school ....................................................................................11
2.1.1.4 Early publication ..................................................................................13
2.1.2 1920-1960..................................................................................................13
2.1.3 1960-1980..................................................................................................17
2.1.4 1980 to present day ....................................................................................18
2.2 On translating poetry..........................................................................................19
2.2.1 The translator as reader ..............................................................................21
2.2.2 Qualifications of a metapoet.......................................................................23
2.2.3 Non-ordinary language of poetry................................................................24
2.2.4 Models for making translation decisions.....................................................26
2.2.4.1 Holmes’ meta-literature model―types of interpretation and types of
poetry...................................................................................................26
2.2.4.1.1 Prose translation of a poem ...........................................................28
2.2.4.1.2 Translation into a verse form.........................................................29
2.2.4.1.3 Re-creative translation ..................................................................30
2.2.4.1.4 Apter on Ezra Pound’s “creative” translations...............................33
2.2.4.2 Holmes’ “retention versus modernization” model .................................35
2.2.4.3 Boerger’s principles for translating poetry ............................................38
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