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The Delighted States
A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste, where he will teach English to the Italian novelist...
Incomparable Empires
Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the...
by S. Qi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China.
Sympathy for the Traitor
A Translation Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.
For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation...
Activism through Poetry
Critical Spanish Poems in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Activism through Poetry: Critical Spanish Poems in Translation is a compiled anthology of translated poems, which explore cultural, political, social, and ecological issues in the context of contemporary Spain. The work highlights the active role that poetry plays in the debate of these issues.
The...
Divided Languages?
Diglossia, Translation and the Rise of Modernity in Japan, China, and the Slavic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The present volume is a collection of papers presented at the international conference “Linguistic Awareness and Dissolution of Diglossia” held in July 2011 at Heidelberg University. The aim is to reevaluate and compare the processes of dissolution of diglossia in East Asian and in European languages,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Assembled by Nietzsche's sister after his death, The Will to Power is a collection of the philosopher's reflections and theories taken from his unpublished notebooks. Covering topics such as nihilism, Christianity, morality and the famous 'will to power', the book was controversially presented as...
Against World Literature
On the Politics of Untranslatability
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts in the field. The book is divided into nine...
Applying Luhmann to Translation Studies
Translation in Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book deals with one of the most prominent and promising developments in modern Translation Studies--the sociology of translation. Tyulenev develops an original way of applying Luhmann's Social Systems Theory to translation, viewing translation as a social-systemic boundary phenomenon. The book...
by Rainer Guldin
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In today’s ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new overlapping theoretical territories and the many...
by Michael Cronin
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Michael Cronin looks at how translation has played a crucial role in shaping debates about identity, language and cultural survival in the past and in the present. He explores how everything from the impact of migration on the curricula for national literature courses, to the way in which nations...
Spanish and Portuguese across Time, Place, and Borders
Studies in Honour of Milton M. Azevedo
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2014
Spanish and Portuguese Across Time covers a diverse range of topics with a common focus, on the dynamic nature of languages and the social forces that shape them across time, place, and borders, and demonstrates how linguistic principles can offer productive angles to the study of literature.