Bakhtiar Sadjadi; Shoja Naynava
Abstract
The present paper aims to study part IV of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land and its Persian translations from the perspective of translation universals and according to the concept of the collective unconscious. Although there is a rich literature on the definitions, kinds, and functions ...
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The present paper aims to study part IV of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land and its Persian translations from the perspective of translation universals and according to the concept of the collective unconscious. Although there is a rich literature on the definitions, kinds, and functions of archetypes, examining the representation of archetypes in translation studies appears to novel. Archetypes are universal and constant concepts; their expressions in different languages sound similar to some extent. The application of the theory of translation universals in examining the coinages conducted for the translation of archetypes demonstrates that the translation of this part of the poem has been less challenging in comparison with the other parts. The high frequency of archetypes in Death by Water has led to slight changes in its different Persian translations. This part of the poem includes a religious and mythical atmosphere with more archetypes in comparison with the other parts of the same poem. Investigating seven different Persian translations of Part IV of the poem, the present research arrives at the conclusion that the translated texts differ slightly in terms of the number and variety of words, and the phrases and sentences in all Persian translations sound similar to each other and a central cannon constitutes them.
