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  • Expanding World

    Towards a Politics of Microspection

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Are we really living in a shrinking world? Is it true that diversity is on the decline everywhere? Are we condemned to live on a planet without difference or hope? The Expanding World challenges the basic notion of a shrinking world in current debates around globalization and argues that it informs ways of thinking and doing which are deeply damaging to the emergence of a progressive politics. The ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Translation and Globalization

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Translation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the ways in which radical changes to the world economy have affected contemporary translation.The Internet, new technology, machine translation and the emergence of a worldwide, multi-million dollar ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Translation and Identity

    by Michael Cronin ...
    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 wage war in the modern era is bound up with urgent questions of translation and identity. Examining ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Eco-Translation

    Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and sustainability of human societies, cultures and languages. In this timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the perspective of the Anthropocene, or the effect of humans on the global environment, has profound implications for the way translation is considered in the past, present and future. Starting with a deep history of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Eco-Travel

    Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Series series Elements in Travel Writing
    Human encounters with the natural world are inseparable from the history of travel. Nature, as fearsome obstacle, a wonder to behold or a source of therapeutic refuge, is bound up with the story of human mobility. Stories of this mobility give readers a sense of the diversity of the natural world, how they might interpret and respond to it and how human preoccupations are a help or a hindrance in ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Translation in the Digital Age

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Translation is living through a period of revolutionary upheaval. The effects of digital technology and the internet on translation are continuous, widespread and profound. From automatic online translation services to the rise of crowdsourced translation and the proliferation of translation Apps for smartphones, the translation revolution is everywhere. The implications for human languages, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Translation goes to the Movies

    by Michael Cronin ...
    This highly accessible introduction to translation theory, written by a leading author in the field, uses the genre of film to bring the main themes in translation to life. Through analyzing films as diverse as the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the Opera, The Star Wars Trilogies and Lost in Translation, the reader is encouraged to think about both issues and problems of translation as they are played ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sinister Sequence

    by Michael Cronin, Geoffrey Household, Laurence Meynell, Dennis Wheatley, L. P. Hartley ...
    Sinister Sequence is an unusual detective story written collaboratively by several well-known British authors: Michael Cronin, Geoffrey Household, Laurence Meynell, Dennis Wheatley, and L. P. Hartley. Each writer contributed a different part of the story, creating a suspenseful sequence of mysterious events. The plot begins with the appearance of a strange and suspicious man whose behavior ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Doing a Literature Review in Nursing, Health and Social Care

    by Michael Coughlan, Patricia Cronin ...
    A clear and practical guide to completing a literature review in nursing and healthcare studies.Providing you with straightforward guidance on how to successfully carry out a literature review as part of your research project or dissertation, this book uses examples and activities to demonstrate how to complete each step correctly, from start to finish, and highlights how to avoid common mistakes. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • American Politics Film Festival

    Understanding US Politics through Film

    by Thomas E.Cronin, Michael A.Genovese ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an innovative and inspirational examination of films and documentaries that helps us explain the evolution of, struggles of, and aspirations of the American experiment.This book sorts politics into categories and then identifies films, TV shows, and documentaries that illuminate various aspects of that category. For each chapter, the authors list and discuss an impressive variety of films, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel

    by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Neil Murphy, Anne Fogarty, Michelle Wang, Prof. Dr. Katharina Rennhak, Mary M. McGlynn, Lianghui LI, Adel Cheong0, Sylvie Mikowski1, Katherine O'Callaghan2, Michael G Cronin3, Molly Ferguson4, Deirdre Flynn5, Seán Golden6, Margarita Estévez-Saá7, Eoghan Smith8, Christine Cusick9, Gerry Smyth0, Hedwig Schwall1, Graham Matthews2, Joseph Valente3, Patricia Malone4, Jack Fennell5, Jennifer Mooney6, Keith O’Sullivan7, Brian Cliff8, Ondrej Pilný9, Hana Zahradníková0, Kersti Powell1, Paula Murphy2 ...
    Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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  • Revolutionary bodies

    Homoeroticism and the political imagination in Irish writing

    by Michael G. Cronin ...
    Revolutionary bodies provides a detailed study of the erotics and politics of the male body in Irish fiction. Some of the authors discussed in the book include: Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan, John Broderick, Colm Tóibín, Keith Ridgway, Jamie O’Neill, Micheál Ó Conghaile and Barry McCrea. The book critically analyses the emergence of contemporary Irish gay fiction since 1993, especially its most ... Read more

    $21.59 USD