The Essays
'Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan'
In addition to the poems in A New Divan, there are three pairs of essays, which enhance and complement the poems, mirroring Goethe’s original ‘Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan’.
Kadhim J. Hassan – “Translating European Poetry into Arabic Culture”
1st September 2020
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Stefan Weidner – “The New Tasks of the Translator: The West-Eastern Divan and the problematic legacy of translation theories from Goethe to Benjamin”
1st September 2020
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Narguess Farzad – “Hafiz and the Challenges of Translating Persian Poetry into English”
1st September 2020
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Robyn Creswell – “Playing a Part: Imru’ al-Qays in English”
1st September 2020
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Rajmohan Gandhi – “Goethe and the East of Today”
1st September 2020
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Sibylle Wentker – “Bringing Persian to Germany”
26th August 2020
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