Comments on: Two Appearances in Maryland: A poetry reading from “The Silence Of Men” and “Translation as Plagiarism as Cultural Transmission: How Benjamin Franklin Helped Bring Classical Iranian Literature Into English”

By: homeyra

homeyra — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:40:22 +0000

Thanks. Two editions (at least!) already in google books. I am impressed.

By: Richard Jeffrey Newman

Richard Jeffrey Newman — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:10:28 +0000

If you google a book called A Grammar of the Persian Language–it should come up in Google Books–and make sure you look at the 1869 edition, there is a discussion of this story somewhere in, I believe, the appendix. Unfortunately, I do not have my sources handy here. Eventually, I will post more on this in more detail.

By: homeyra

homeyra — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:48:47 +0000

Great event. Too far for me to attend to!
Where can I read about the plagiarism you mention?