"Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery studies the importance of translation for Borges and the importance of Borges for translation. Sergio Waisman demonstrates the extent to which Borges's ideas about translation lie at the core of his aesthetics, from his e…
This present book discusses issues related to languages, cultures, and discourses by addressing a variety of topics ranging from culture and translation, cognitive and linguistic dimensions of discourse, and the role of language in political discourses and bilingualism. By focus…
"The Thousand and One Nights was secular literature, not approved by the cultured literary classes as literature at all. It existed as a popular entertainment and much of it expressed the desires, wishes and experiences of a middle to lower class urban and mercantile people. How…
"The Thousand and One Nights was secular literature, not approved by the cultured literary classes as literature at all. It existed as a popular entertainment and much of it expressed the desires, wishes and experiences of a middle to lower class urban and mercantile people. How…
The Thousand and One Nights was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a radically different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change. This study explores the Nights with reference to …
"The Thousand and One Nights was secular literature, not approved by the cultured literary classes as literature at all. It existed as a popular entertainment and much of it expressed the desires, wishes and experiences of a middle to lower class urban and mercantile people. How…
Ming dynasty tales: a guided reader
"With commentary and annotaions throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales bring Ming era China vividly…
"The genre of crime fiction - so often rooted in the details of a place, time and subculture - enjoys significant international popularity and provides readers with a unique opportunity to explore the different cultural identities represented in its texts. This book offers a con…
"In 1830, Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon, a foundational work in the history of American religion that has remained an object of controversy and debate for nearly two centuries. For much of that time, scholars and members of various religious organizations have either…
"James Joyce's astonishing final text, Finnegans Wake (1939), is universally acknowledged to be entirely untranslatable. And yet, no fewer than fifteen complete renderings of the 628-page text exist to date, in twelve different languages altogether--and at least ten further comp…
"James Joyce's astonishing final text, Finnegans Wake (1939), is universally acknowledged to be entirely untranslatable. And yet, no fewer than fifteen complete renderings of the 628-page text exist to date, in twelve different languages altogether--and at least ten further comp…
"James Joyce's astonishing final text, Finnegans Wake (1939), is universally acknowledged to be entirely untranslatable. And yet, no fewer than fifteen complete renderings of the 628-page text exist to date, in twelve different languages altogether--and at least ten further comp…