The Cultural Study of Dariush Mehrjui’s Adaptation of "<i>A Doll’s House</i>" by Henrik Ibsen in the Light of Linda Hutcheon’s Theory of Adaptation

Narmin Beglari; Nasser Dasht Payma

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The Cultural Study of Dariush Mehrjui’s Adaptation of "A Doll’s House" by Henrik Ibsen in the Light of Linda Hutcheon’s Theory of Adaptation

Narmin Beglari, Nasser Dasht Payma

Published in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation (Volume 3, Issue 1)

Received: 17 January 2017 Accepted: 31 January 2017 Published: 11 March 2017

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This paper examines the crucial interplay between cultural studies and translation. It attempts to shed light on how cultural elements such as gender, ideology and social identity, which necessitate doing adaptation, show that an adaptation is a kind of translation. To this end, the present research explored how Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was introduced to Persian culture as a movie entitled Sara by Dariush Mehrjui, mediated by apprehending the intended function and meaning of the original work and its proximity to the cultural elements application of the Iranian audience, through which Nora in Norway could be ‘translated’ to Sara in Iran, to enlighten both audience. Considering Andre Lefevere’s notions on ideology and Linda Hutcheon’s theory of adaptation, the descriptive and comparative analysis of characters’ Dialogue and element style in A Doll’s House and Sara represented the effect of cultural elements in doing adaptation and yielded that cultural elements interfere or necessitate adapting from the literatures of other cultures or nations.

Published in	International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation (Volume 3, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijalt.20170301.11
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Cultural Studies, Adaptation, Translation Studies, Dariush Mehrjui, Linda Hutcheon

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Narmin Beglari

Department of Translation Studies, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran
Nasser Dasht Payma

Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

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