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  • Banishment and Belonging

    Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon

    by Ronit Ricci ...
    Series series Asian Connections
    Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all three are tied to narratives of banishment and exile. Ronit Ricci ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Exile in Colonial Asia

    Kings, Convicts, Commemoration

    by Ronit Ricci, Anand A. Yang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Clare Anderson, Robert Aldrich, Dr. Sri Margana, Dr. Timo Kaartinen, Jean Gelman Taylor, Dr. Carol Liston0, Professor Lorraine M. Paterson1, Penny Edwards2 ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Translation in Asia

    Theories, Practices, Histories

    Edited by Ronit Ricci, Jan van der Putten ...
    The field of translation studies was largely formed on the basis of modern Western notions of monolingual nations with print-literate societies and monochrome cultures. A significant number of societies in Asia – and their translation traditions – have diverged markedly from this model. With their often multilingual populations, and maintaining a highly oral orientation in the transmission of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    by Emily Apter ...
    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, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

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  • Language for God in Patristic Tradition

    Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism

    by Mark Sheridan ...
    Criticism of myth in the Bible is not a modern problem. Its roots go back to the earliest Christian theologians, and before them, to ancient Greek and Jewish thinkers. The dilemma posed by texts that ascribe human characteristics and emotions to the divine is a perennial problem, and we have much to learn from the ancient attempts to address it.Mark Sheridan provides a theological and historical ... Read more

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  • Ricochet

    Word Sonnets - Sonnets d'un mot

    by Seymour Mayne ...
    Translated by Sabine Huynh ...
    Ricochet is a bilingual collection of word sonnets by one of the chief innovators of the form, Seymour Mayne. It includes three sequences of pithy and evocative poems that encapsulate moments of sharp perception while also drawing attention to instants of humour that suddenly appear in daily life.Concise and visual in effect, word sonnets are fourteen line poems, with one word per line. Frequently ... Read more

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  • Teaching Translation

    Programs, courses, pedagogies

    Edited by LAWRENCE VENUTI ...
    Over the past half century, translation studies has emerged decisively as an academic field around the world, and in recent years the number of academic institutions offering instruction in translation has risen along with an increased demand for translators, interpreters and translator trainers. Teaching Translation isthe most comprehensive and theoretically informed overview of current ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Hermes Complex

    Philosophical Reflections on Translation

    by Charles Le Blanc ...
    Translated by Barbara Folkart ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words of others and resorted to all manner of ruses in order to assert his presence in the messages he transmitted. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Adapting Translation for the Stage

    by Geraldine Brodie, Emma Cole ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Translating for performance is a difficult – and hotly contested – activity.Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those working across these boundaries, exploring common themes and issues encountered when writing, staging, and researching translated works. It is organised into four parts, each reflecting on a theatrical ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Translation in Modern Japan

    Edited by Indra Levy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism with cutting-edge English-language scholarship.Collectively, the contributors to this book address ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Translation of Culture

    How a society is perceived by other societies

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 11 - Translation Studies
    A culture is a way of perceiving reality. Do not be misled by the verb “perceive”. Some might think that, if the objective reality of a culture is the same, its perception must also be unique for all individuals. But perception is a subjective phenomenon, and what is perceived is not the photograph of reality, but one of the many possible photographs. The individual’s experience also influences ... Read more

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  • Old English Metre

    An Introduction

    by Jun Terasawa ...
    Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the interaction between Old English metre and components such as word-formation, word-choice, and grammar. He ... Read more

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