The Study of Literal and Cultural Popularity of Mahmoud Darwish's works in Iran on Reception Theory

Document Type : Original Research

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Yazd University
Abstract
From the point of view of comparative literature, the category of literary acceptance is formed when the works of a writer go beyond the national and linguistic boundaries of the source culture and face the reception of the destination culture. In this case, the possibility of globalizing the literary work is provided. In the process of acceptance or literary acceptance, all translations of a work are examined at different stages. The present essay aims to analyze the acceptance of Mahmoud Darwish as a global poet through paratextual factors and also to the cultural influences and historicism effective in the process of this Iqbal among the culture of origin. and reach the destination. The results of the research show that the 1940s and 1950s is the beginning of the translation of Mahmoud Darwish's works in Iran, so that in the years leading to the Islamic Revolution, the number of translations increased due to the tendency of Iranians towards changing political conditions. the translation of Darvish's works began to decline. In the 1980s, due to the literary taste of Iranians, the translation reached a relative stability again, and poems by Mahmoud Darwish were translated, which unlike the previous decades, along with the protest literature, a romantic motif was formed. In the 1990s, Darvish's works were met with great favor by Iranians; As this decade is the golden era of translation of Darvish's works in Iran, and in recent years, the translation of works has maintained its upward trend.
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