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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 1
IS  - no. 2
T2  - International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies
SP  - 11-16
ID  - bbbc2266
T1  - "Translation as 'Trans- Sica' and 'False Compare': Preserving the Future 'Afterlife' of Contrastive Literature"
AU  - Mounir, Ben Zid
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Argues that cultural changes made in Arabic translations of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 that significantly alter the original text in making it conform to Arab values. Notes that the translators changed the gender of the poem's subject from male to female and "destroyed the true Shakespeare concept of beauty." English summary, 11.
ER  -