Literary Studies

The Poetry of Du Fu

by Owen, Stephen, Warner, Ding Xiang

fromLibrary of Chinese Humanities

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This six volume work is the first complete translation of the poetry of Du Fu, the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition. The entirety of Du Fu's works provides a more nuanced portrait of the author than the standard selections. It gives testimony to the great rebellion of 755,…

Irish Literature Since 1990: Diverse Voices

by Parker, Michael, Brewster, Scott

fromKnowledge Unlatched

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This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideolog…

Fear and Loathing in the North: Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the …

by Conference Fear and Loathing in the North: Muslims and Jews in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region, Stockholm

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Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with …

From Orientalism to Cultural Capital: the Myth of Russia in British Literature of the 1…

by Soboleva, Olga, Wrenn, Angus

fromKnowledge Unlatched

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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theor…

Creative Constraints

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This volume addresses one of the central issues in literary translation: the relationship between the creative freedom of the translator and the multiplicity of constraints to which translation is necessarily subject. The links between an author?s translation work and his or her…

Creative Constraints: Translation and Authorship

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This volume addresses one of the central issues in literary translation: the relationship between the creative freedom of the translator and the multiplicity of constraints to which translation is necessarily subject. The links between an author's translation work and his or her…

Erlesene Erlebnisse: Formen der Partizipation an narrativen Texten

by Hiergeist, Teresa

fromLettre

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Long description: Lesen ist alles andere als passives Rezipieren: Wenn eine gruselige Atmosphäre einen nach der Lektüre nicht einschlafen lässt, man über einem spannenden Krimi die Zeit vergisst oder Emma Bovarys Ehebruch herbeiwünscht, obwohl man im Alltag radikaler Verfechter …

The lives of Thomas Becket

by Manchester University Press

fromManchester medieval sources (Manchester, England)

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This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. It provides a valuable glimpse of the late twelfth-century world, and an insight into the minds of those who witnessed the ev…

From the Old Country: Stories and Sketches of China and Taiwan

by Zhong, Lihe, McClellan, T. M.

fromModern Chinese literature from Taiwan

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Though he lived mostly in rural South Taiwan, Zhong Lihe (1915?1960) spent several years in Manchuria and Peking, moving among an eclectic mix of ethnicities, classes, and cultures. His fictional portraits unfold on Japanese battlefields and in Peking slums, as well as in the re…

Kafka's stereoscopes: the political function of a literary style

by Holm, Isak Winkel

fromLiterary studies (Bloomsbury Publishing)

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"In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiser Panorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the experience, he began to emulate the apparatus in his literary sketches, developing a style we might call "stereoscopic," juxtaposing, like t…

Kafka's stereoscopes: the political function of a literary style

by Holm, Isak Winkel

fromLiterary studies (Bloomsbury Publishing)

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"In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiser Panorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the experience, he began to emulate the apparatus in his literary sketches, developing a style we might call 2stereoscopic,3 juxtaposing, like t…