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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “thomas o beebee”
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  • Transmesis

    Inside Translation’s Black Box

    by Thomas O. Beebee ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Clarissa on the Continent

    Translation and Seduction

    by Thomas O. Beebee ...
    "Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation—creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak—as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation of Clarissa by the novelist Antione François de Prévost and the German translation by the Göttingen Orientalist ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Short Story as World Literature

    The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre

    by Professor Thomas Oliver Beebee ...
    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story is primarily a product of Western modernity.Genres do not have rigid, timeless, once-and-for-all definitions, and the short story is no exception. Short Story as World Literature invites the reader to ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Film as World Literature

    by Professor Thomas Oliver Beebee ...
    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    Redefines the theoretical and thematic contents of world literature by considering it in connection with film.What gets lost when we understand film as essentially different from literature? What gets lost when we think them essentially the same? Does the constructed difference between literature and film also create social and political exclusions, exclusions that may exacerbate class struggle or ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • German Literature as World Literature

    Edited by Professor Thomas Oliver Beebee ...
    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    This new collection investigates German literature in its international dimensions. While no single volume can deal comprehensively with such a vast topic, the nine contributors cover a wide historical range, with a variety of approaches and authors represented. Together, the essays begin to adumbrate the systematic nature of the relations between German national literature and world literature as ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • Born Translated

    The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature

    by Rebecca Walkowitz ...
    Series series Literature Now
    As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques that treat translation as a medium rather than as an afterthought. These strategies challenge the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Literature in Translation

    Teaching Issues and Reading Practices

    Edited by Maier, Francoise Massardier-Kenney ...
    Series series Translation Studies
    New pedagogy for studying literature in translationIn the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through works in translation, students in our mostly monolingual society are at last becoming acquainted with the ... Read more

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  • A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism

    Edited by Eric Hayot, Rebecca Walkowitz ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those parameters have expanded in recent decades, but the incorporation of multiple origins and influences has ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Dictionary of Film Studies

    by Annette Kuhn, Guy Westwell ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • You Are What You Speak

    Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

    by Robert Lane Greene ...
    "An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power." - KirkusWhat is it about other people’s language that moves some of us to anxiety or even rage? For centuries, sticklers the world over have donned the cloak of authority to control the way people use words. Now this sensational new book ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Me

    The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary

    Edited by Alisa Lebow ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film. The two senses of the word are immediately in play – the matter and the maker—thus the two ways of being subjectified as both subject and object. Subjectivity finds its filmic expression, not surprisingly, in very personal ways, yet it is ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    "An award-winning translator describes and defends his profession. . . . Ultimately illuminating, even transformative." — Kirkus Reviews"Dazzingly inventive." — New York Times Book Review , A Notable Book of the Year"A richly original cultural history." — The Economist , A Book ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD