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Cambridge University Press Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric
Book SynopsisStudents of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual identity long debated by historians. Townsend's engaging, accessible close readings of medieval Latin poetry, prose romance, and monastic devotional texts combine philological precision with insights drawn from queer theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Subversive Silences of Medieval Latin Rhetoric; Passing over Queerness: Sexual Heterodoxy in Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis; Reticence and Desire in the Devotional Works of Aelred of Rievaulx; The Deadly Play of Speech and Silence in Apollonius of Tyre; Hiding What Must Be Hidden: Skirting the Scandal of the Amazon Subject.
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Cambridge University Press The Masculinities of John Milton
Book SynopsisThe Masculinites of John Milton is the first published monograph on Milton''s men. Examining how Milton''s fantasies of manly authority are framed in his major works, this study exposes the gaps between Milton''s pleas for liberty and his assumptions that White men like himself should rule his culture. From schoolboys teaching each other how to traffic in young women in the Ludlow Masque, to his treatises on divorce that make the wife-less husband the best possible citizen, and to the later epics, in which Milton wrestles with male small talk and the ladders of masculine social power, his verse and prose draw from and amplify his culture''s claims about manliness in education, warfare, friendship, citizenship, and conversation. This revolutionary poet''s most famous writings reveal how ambivalently manhood is constructed to serve itself in early modern England.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Malone and the Problems of Chronology
Book SynopsisThis Element will be on the three versions of Edmond Malone's An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare were Written and the way they created, shaped, focused, directed, and misdirected, our idea of the chronology and sequence of Shakespeare's plays.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. External Evidence; 2. Internal Information; 3. The Folio and Internal Late Dates; 4. Problems with Malone's Method and Question; 5. Chronology Now; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing
Book SynopsisIs a facsimile an edition? In answering this question in relation to Shakespeare, and to early modern writing in general, the author explores the interrelationship between the beginning of the conventional process of collecting and editing Shakespeare's plays and the increasing sophistication of facsimiles.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is a Facsimile and Why Does It Matter?; 1. The Pre-History of Facsimiles: Eighteenth-Century Editing; 2. Searching for Reproduction: Traced and Type-Facsimiles; 3. The Photographic Era; 4. New Bibliography, New Facsimiles; 5. The Hinman Folio Facsimile and Reproduction as a Manipulated Ideal Text; 6. The Microfilm Revolution; 7. The Resilience of Books and the Resurrection of Old Editions; 8. Screen and Page: Digital Facsimiles; 9. New Textualism and the Exploded Original; 10. Endless Facsimiles and the Shakespeare Original(s); Coda; Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press Decoding Anne Lister
Book SynopsisThe first edited collection on Anne Lister (1791-1840), this interdisciplinary book explores how her diaries (as historical and literary text and in adaptation) reframe same-sex practices. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Cambridge University Press This Will Not Be Generative
Book SynopsisAttends to thesemiotics of ecological writings via Caribbean literary studies and black critical theory. Closely reading texts by Donna Haraway, Monique Allewaert, and Lisa Wells,it exposeshowthe language of tentacles and tendrils, an assumptive 'we,' and redemptive sympathy or 'care' disguises extraction from black people and blackness.Table of Contents1. Exergue; 2. Introduction; 3. The Seduction; 4. The Disillusionment; 5. Recoil and The Speculative; References.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of South African Literature
Book SynopsisThis will be the standard reference work on the history of South African literature, with unrivalled coverage of oral and written literature from the beginnings to the present. Written by a team of international experts, it offers a picture of literature in all South Africa's languages.Trade Review'Ambitiously conceptualized and wonderfully realized, The Cambridge History of South African Literature provides a unique and valuable addition to the field of scholarship on South African literatures.' Journal of African History'… [an] ambitious and learned book … This book will intrigue readers … a rich study which draws on an exceptionally broad range of primary sources …' Journal of Continuity and ChangeTable of ContentsIntroduction David Attwell and Derek Attridge; Part I. Oratures, Oral Histories, Origins: 1. 'The Bushmen's Letters': |Xam narratives of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection and their afterlives Hedley Twidle; 2. A contextual analysis of Xhosa iimbongi and their izibongo Russell H. Kaschula; 3. I sing of the woes of my travels: the lifela of Lesotho Nhlanhla Maake; 4. Praise, politics, performance: from Zulu izibongo to the Zionists Mbongiseni Buthelezi; 5. IsiNdebele, siSwati, Northern Sotho, Tshivenda and Xitsonga oral culture Manie Groenewald and Mokgale Makgopa; Part II. Exploration, Early Modernity and Enlightenment at the Cape, 1488–1820: 6. Shades of Adamastor: the legacy of The Lusiads Malvern van Wyk Smith; 7. In the archive: records of the Dutch settlement and the contemporary novel Carli Coetzee; 8. Eighteenth-century natural history, travel writing and South African literary historiography Ian Glenn; Part III. Empire, Resistance and National Beginnings, 1820–1910: 9. Writing settlement and empire: the Cape after 1820 Matthew Shum; 10. The mission presses and the rise of black journalism Catherine Woeber; 11. The imperial romance Laura Chrisman; 12. Perspectives on the South African War Elleke Boehmer; 13. The beginnings of Afrikaans literature H. P. van Coller; Part IV. Modernism and Trans-National Culture, 1910–1948: 14. Black writers and the historical novel: 1907–1948 Bhekizizwe Peterson; 15. The Dertigers and the plaasroman: two brief perspectives on Afrikaans literature Gerrit Olivier; 16. New African modernity and the New African movement Ntongela Masilela; 17. Refracted modernisms: Roy Campbell, Herbert Dhlomo, N. P. van Wyk Louw Tony Voss; 18. The metropolitan and local: Douglas Blackburn, Pauline Smith, William Plomer and Herman Charles Bosman Craig MacKenzie; Part V. Apartheid and Its Aftermath, 1948–the Present: 19. The Fabulous Fifties: short fiction in English Dorothy Driver; 20. Writing in exile Tlhalo Raditlhalo; 21. Afrikaans literature 1948–1976 Hein Willemse; 22. Afrikaans literature after 1976: resistances and repositionings Louise Viljoen; 23. The liberal tradition in fiction Peter Blair; 24. Black Consciousness poetry: writing against apartheid Thengani H. Ngwenya; 25. Popular forms and the United Democratic Front Peter Horn; 26. Writing the prison Daniel Roux; 27. Theatre: regulation, resistance and recovery Loren Kruger; 28. The lyric poem during and after apartheid Dirk Klopper; 29. Writing and publication in African languages since 1948 Christiaan Swanepoel; 30. Writing the interregnum: literature and the demise of apartheid Stephen Clingman; 31. Rewriting the nation Rita Barnard; 32. Writing the city after apartheid Michael Titlestad; Part VI. South African Literature: Continuities and Contrasts: 33. South Africa in the global imaginary Andrew van der Vlies; 34. Confession and autobiography M. J. Daymond and Andries Visagie; 35. 'A change of tongue': questions of translation Leon de Kock; 36. Writing women Meg Samuelson; 37. The 'experimental line' in fiction Michael Green; 38. The book in South Africa Peter D. McDonald; 39. Literary and cultural criticism in South Africa David Johnson; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Staël Romanticism and Revolution
Book SynopsisTwo centuries of sexism have hidden Staël''s place in international history. Straddling the divides of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, emergent nationalism, and European Romanticism, and playing pivotal roles in those movements, she was also a friend of Byron, Jefferson, and Tsar Alexander. Extensive archival research, and a complete contextual overview of Staël''s writings, here restore Staël''s canonical status as political philosopher, historian, European Romantic theorist, and Revolutionary. While the term stateswoman is not commonly used, it describes Staël aptly, acting as she necessarily did through men around her. The brilliant game of masks and proxies imposed on her by patriarchy is detailed here, alongside her unending fight for the oppressed, from the nations of Napoleon''s subjugated Europe to the victims of the Atlantic slave trade. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Cambridge University Press TransGenre
Book SynopsisTransGenre is a reconsideration of genre theory in long-form fiction through transgender minor literature in the US and Canada. Using four genre sites (the road novel, the mourning novel, the chosen family novel, and the archival novel), this Element considers how the minoritized becomes the minoritarian through deterritorializing generic conventions in fiction to its own ends. In so doing, TransGenre proposes narrative reading practices as strategies of the minor to subvert, transgress, and reappropriate the novel''s genealogy and radical future prospects. A range of fiction published in the last decade is deployed as largely self-theorizing, generating its own epistemological, thematic, and formal innovations and possibilities, revealing cisheteronormative underpinnings of generic categories and turning them in on themselves.
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Cambridge University Press Slime
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Saint Philip Street Press Literature Against Criticism
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Taylor & Francis Ecocriticism
Book SynopsisEcocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler.Trade Review"In this fully revised 3rd edition, Garrard offers us once again a masterful overview of the field of eco-criticism, useful for both novice and teacher alike. Garrard’s distinctiveness lies in his extraordinarily wide field of view; and his skilful use of multi-partiality … ‘judging texts by what they say rather than by what they leave out’. This edition of Ecocriticism will instantly find a place on my student reading lists, for undergraduate geographers and Masters’ students of the Anthropocene alike. I could wish them no better guide than Garrard for navigating the tropes, ideologies and ideals that infuse environmental writings". - Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography, University of Cambridge "In the third edition of his seminal Ecocriticism, Greg Garrard continues his candid and ‘multi-partial’ assessments of environmentally oriented texts and ecocritical arguments, ready to discern and judge, unafraid to invite controversy. Thoroughly updated with a new chapter on Indigeneity and an outlook on ecocriticism in the future, this most recent edition of Garrard’s influential introduction to the field is a valuable read for anyone with an interest in ecologically informed literary and cultural studies."- Alexa Weik von Mossner, author of Affective Ecologies"Ecocriticism provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to ecocritical scholarship. In this third edition, Garrard offers a multi-partial reading approach—judging texts for what they say rather than what they leave out. Chapters highlight this approach while exploring the field’s foundational and continued tensions in weaving together aesthetic, ethical and political considerations. Consider the new Indigeneity chapter. Spotlighting historical contexts that shape contested meanings of "ecological Indigeneity," Garrard tackles works of literary authors familiar to the ecocritical canon (e.g., Leslie Marlo Silko, Louis Erdrich). He also brings new creative and analytic texts into view to argue first, for attending to the nuance and dynamism of Indigenous ecological relations, and second, for ecocritics to attend to what texts do, well or badly, and not just to what they omit.Revised with new content, Ecocriticism remains essential reading for students of literary and cultural studies." - Salma Monani, Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies Department, Gettysburg College"This is an outstanding book, lucid, authoritative and always level-headed, however fraught the material at issue. The clarity of the overview provided will make it useful to experienced writers and teachers in the field as well as to new readers and students. These will also find helpful examples of ecocritical practice and up to date guides to further reading. Sensitive attention to the dynamics of pedagogy and popularization has always been a distinctive feature of Garrard’s work. Admirers of the first or second editions of Garrard’s book should be reminded that this is overwhelmingly (c. 85%) a new book." - Timothy Clark, Professor of English, Durham University"Greg Garrard’s Ecocriticism has long been a foundational text in this vibrant and rapidly evolving field. A changing world requires changing academic responses, which in turn call for fresh editions of central texts. The third edition of Ecocriticism continues to illuminate such essential concepts as pastoralism and wilderness, while also propelling readers toward current issues and approaches such as New Materialism, the climate crisis, affect theory, decolonization, among many others. This new edition will be useful for both longtime ecocritics and newcomers to the field." - Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, coeditor of Nature and Literary Studies"Ecocriticism has many voices, many forms, many waves, and many sensibilities. But Greg Garrard’s voice, and the shape he has given to teaching and framing this discipline is unique: and for cohorts of students and scholars, his representation of ecocriticism is an entry point into this world. Whether one shares his ideas or not, it is impossible not to be enthralled by his argumentations and participate in the conversation that this book wants to be. As it first appeared, Garrard’s Ecocriticism was a pioneering work. After almost two decades, it is a classic. And, in the Darwinian environment of our book forest, a living one." - Serenella Iovino, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Comparative Literature, and Italian Studies, University of North Carolina"The third edition of Greg Garrard's Ecocriticism is the most measured, readable, comprehensive introduction imaginable to the broad field of the environmental humanities in general and its literary dimensions in particular." - Sir Jonathan Bate, author of Romantic Ecology and The Song of the EarthTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Beginnings: Pollution Positions Cornucopia Ecological Modernisation Ecofeminism Political Ecology and Environmental Justice Radical Ecology New Materialism Pastoral Old World Pastoral Colonial and Black Pastoral in America Contemporary British Environmental Literature Pastoral Ecology Wilderness Old World Wilderness The Sublime Wilderness in North America The Trouble with Wilderness The New Wild? Apocalypse Myths of Annihilation and Redemption The Secular Apocalypse Environmental Apocalypse Climate Apocalypse Animals Why Animals Matter Looking at Animals: A Typology Why Look at Wild Animals? Indigeneity Acknowledgements The ‘Ecological Indian’ and Ecological Indigeneity North American Indigenous Literatures Decolonisation, Indigenisation and Ecocriticism The Earth Images Data Narratives Conclusion: Ecocriticism in the Future Index
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Taylor & Francis The Afterlife of Dantes Vita Nova in the
Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first systematic study of the translation and reception of Dante's Vita Nova in the Anglophone world, reconstructing for the first time the contexts and genesis of its English-language afterlife from the early nineteenth century to the present day.Dante is one of the foremost authors of the Western canon, and his Vita Nova has been repeatedly translated into English over the past two centuries. However, there exists no comprehensive account of the critical, scholarly, and creative English-language reception of Dante's work. This collection brings together scholars from Dante studies, translation studies, English studies, and book history to examine the translation and reception of the Vita Nova among modern English-speaking publics, in both academic and non-academic contexts, and thus represents a major contribution to Dante studies.The Afterlife of Dante's Vita Nova in the Anglophone World will be an es
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Translation and Transmission of Concrete
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the global reception of untranslatable concrete poetry. Featuring contributions from an international group of literary and translation scholars and practitioners, working across a variety of languages, the book views the development of the international concrete poetry movement through the lens of transcreation, that is, the informed, creative response to the translation of playful, enigmatic, visual texts. Contributions range in subject matter from ancient Greek and Chinese pattern poems to modernist concrete poems from the Americas, Europe and Asia. This challenging body of experimental work offers creative challenges and opportunities to literary translators and unique pleasures to the sympathetic reader. Highlighting the ways in which literary influence is mapped across languages and borders, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of experimental poetry, translation studies and comparative literature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements & Notes on ContributorsIntroduction John CorbettChapter 1: Concrete Poetry, Playfulness and Translation Susan BassnettChapter 2: The Origins of the Untranslatable: The Earliest Western Visual Poetry Juliana Di Fiori PondianChapter 3: Concrete Poetry in China: Form, Content, Theme and FunctionLi LiChapter 4: Writing and Translating Concrete Poetry in Chinese CharactersChen LiChapter 5: The Structures of Chance: Transcreating Noigandres ideogramas into EnglishClaus ClüverChapter 6: Transcreation without BordersK. David JacksonChapter 7: Edwin Morgan as TranscreatorTing HuangChapter 8: Constellations and ideograms: Eugen Gomringer’s multilingual concrete poetryRaquel Abi-SamaraChapter 9: The Intermedial Recoding of Tradition in Augusto de Campos’ intraduções Simone Homem de MelloChapter 10: Concrete North America: Some Questions of ReceptionOdile CisnerosChapter 11: Mapping the International Concrete Poetry NetworkJohn CorbettChapter 12: Metaphor and Material in Concrete PoetryChris McCabe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor
Book SynopsisIt has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian orthodoxy. Christopher Corbin clarifies Coleridge's religious identity and argues that while Coleridge's Christian orthodoxy may have been sui generis, it was closely aligned with moderate Anglican Evangelicalism. Approaching religious identity as a kind of culture that includes distinct forms of language and networks of affiliation in addition to beliefs and practices, this book looks for the distinguishable movements present in Coleridge's Britain to more precisely locate his religious identity than can be done by appeals to traditional denominational divisions. Coleridge's search for unity led him to desire and synthesize the warmth of heart religion (symbolized as Methodism) with the light of rationalism (symbolized as Socinianism), and the evangelicalism in the Church of England, being the Table of ContentsEntry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mood
Book SynopsisMood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary. While it has remained resistant to theorisation, it nonetheless has a substantial influence on art, politics and society. Since its practical omnipresence in every-day life renders it one of the most significant aspects of affect studies, it has garnered an increasing amount of critical attention in a number of disciplines across the humanities, sciences and social sciences in the past two decades. Mood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Theories provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical exploration of the phenomenon of mood from an interdisciplinary angle. Building on cutting-edge research in this emerging field and bringing together established and new voices, it bridges the existing disciplinary gap in the study of mood and further consolidates this phenomenon as a crucial concept in disciplinary and interdisciplinary study. By combining perspectives and concepts from the literary studies, philosoTable of ContentsEntry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Demystifying Translation
This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of translation for students of other disciplines and readers who are not translators. It provides students outside the translation profession with a greater awareness of, and appreciation for, what goes into translation. Providing readers with tools for their own personal translation-related needs, this book encourages an ethical approach to translation and offers an insight into translation as a possible career.This textbook covers foundational concepts; key figures, groups, and events; tools and resources for non-professional translation tasks; and the types of translation that non-translators are liable to encounter. Each chapter includes practical activities, annotated further reading, and summaries of key points suitable for use in classrooms, online teaching, or self-study. There is alsoa glossary of key terms.De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators is the ideal te
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Translational Sociology
Book SynopsisA Translational Sociology provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the key role of translation in society. There is a growing recognition of translation's intervention in the intellectual history of sociology, in the international reception of social theory, and in approaches to the global literary and academic fields. This book brings attention to aspects of translation that have remained more elusive to sociological interpretation and analysis, investigating translation's ubiquitous presence in the everyday lives of ordinary people in increasingly multilingual societies and its key intervention in mediating politics within and beyond the nation.In order to challenge a reductive view of translation as a relatively straightforward process of word substitution that is still prevalent in the social sciences, this book proposes and develops a broader definition of translation as a social relation across linguistic difference, a process of transformation that leaveTrade Review'Sociologists! Read this book! It is a major contribution to sociological theorising, and rams home the point that you ignore translation matters at your peril. Translation Studies scholars! Read this book! Bielsa pushes the ‘sociological turn’ in Translation Studies further, deeper, and better than anyone else has yet managed. Everyone else! Read this book! It is a brilliantly incisive intervention into many of the pressing and inter-related cultural, linguistic, and political matters of our time.' David Inglis, University of Helsinki, Finland 'This book makes a significant contribution to the sociology of translation. It shows how translation is interwoven into the very fabric of social life and is central to many major questions in modern social and political thought.'Gerard Delanty, Sussex University, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Translation and societyChapter 1. Translation and identityChapter 2. Translation and transformationChapter 3. For a translational sociologyPart II. Translation and politicsChapter 4. Politics of translationChapter 5. Translating democracyChapter 6. The translator as producerPart III. Translation and experienceChapter 7. Translation and modernity: Benjamin’s BaudelaireChapter 8. Translating strangersChapter 9. Homecoming: an auto-analysisConclusion: translation and reflexivityGeneral bibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Poetics and Politics of Relationality in
Book SynopsisThis is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to relationality by Aboriginal thinkers, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and recent work in New Formalism and narrative theory, the book illustrates how they use a broad range of narrative techniques to mediate, negotiate, and temporarily create networks of relations that interlink all elements of the universe. Through this focus on relationality, Aboriginal writing gains both local and global significance. Locally, these narratives assert Indigenous sovereignty by staging an unbroken interrelatedness of people and their land. Globally, they intervene into current discourses about humanity's relationship with the natural environment, urging readers to acknowledge our interrelatedness with and dependence on the land that sustains us.Trade Review"Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction is an absolutely outstanding study that pushes the specifically literary aspects of indigenous Australian fiction into the centre of interest. By focussing on the interrelations between narrative forms and political attitudes, it also contributes to the further development of a postcolonial narratology. And the book demonstrates convincingly how the prose narratives by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright negotiate relationality. What I find particularly impressive is the sensitive ways in which Dorothee Klein reflects upon and comments on the (not at all unproblematic) reception of indigenous Australian literature by a Western reader. Klein treats the texts with caution, modesty, and respect. This is how to do it." Dr. Jan Alber, Professor of English Literature and Cognitive Studies at RWTH Aachen University and Past President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative"This new book by Dorothee Klein takes a fresh look at Australian Aboriginal literature through a New Formalist lens. Her innovative readings of canonical writers Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch and Alexis Wright focus on the poetics and politics of relationality. They attend meticulously to the narrative techniques of each writer, analysing the ways in which the language carves out the relational space of reading.Yet this book is in no way dry. Klein links narratological analysis to historical, social and political issues and argues passionately that Aboriginal literatures address globally urgent themes such as climate change and other catastrophes. She demonstrates through her readings of the fiction that Aboriginal onto-epistemologies insist on the interconnectedness of humans, non-human actors and the environment. This book is beautifully written. Impressively erudite and well-researched it fearlessly grapples with Big Ideas but in a way that is always accessible and a great pleasure to read. It is an important book and a must read for anyone interested in Indigenous literatures."Dr. Anne Brewster, honorary Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales"Unprecedented in scope and content, this study discovers a common aim in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction that has so far not been discussed at length: relationality. It considers how Aboriginal fictions use narrative form to create a tight knitted feeling of connectedness among its indigenous characters and a sense of relatedness to their local environment. By delving into the narrative techniques of authors like Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright, we learn how relationality offers a productive alternative to a wide-spread individualistic care of self. Although the study engages with the aesthetic qualities of these narratives in an in-depth-manner unusual in postcolonial criticism, it does not ignore the socio-political context. Indeed, its main premise lies in the theoretically advanced conceiving of form as a way of knowing. Working with the concept of a "poetics of relationality" that functions to analyse perspective-taking, plot-design and landscape description, it is able to elaborate how a broad range of narrative techniques in Aboriginal fictions creates a sense of relations that reach beyond the human to interlink all elements of the cosmos. Besides this achievement in the narratives, the study elucidates how the narratives also have the potential to engage the reader in imagined temporary communities that share its dynamic, non-hierarchical and diverse ways of knowing. At a time like today, when social distancing is the order of the day, practising an imagination of communality may constitute a key to ethical and politically sensitive awareness. Given these responsive effects, this book goes beyond most academic studies in challenging notions of human centrality and emphasising our role as care-takers of the environment."Prof. Dr. Renate Brosch, University of StuttgartTable of ContentsIntroduction: Towards a Poetics and Politics of RelationalityChapter 1: Non-Human (Narrative) Authority in Bruce Pascoe’s EarthChapter 2: Place-Based Storytelling in Kim Scott’s Benang and That Deadman DanceChapter 3: Precarious Relations in Tara June Winch’s Swallow the AirChapter 4: Non-Egocentric Relations and Ambiguity in Alexis Wright’s CarpentariaChapter 5: Travelling Narratives and Community in Alexis Wright’s The Swan BookChapter 6: Stories, Language, and Sharing in Kim Scott’s TabooConclusion: Experiencing Relationality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary PhysicianAuthors
Book SynopsisThis book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work. A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical and health humanities analyze the literary output of doctors, including Oliver Sacks, Danielle Ofri, Atul Gawande, Louise Aronson, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Abraham Verghese. Discussing issues of moral meaning in the works of contemporary doctor-writers, from memoir to poetry, this collection reflects some of the diversity of medicine today. A key reference for all students and scholars of medical and health humanities, the book will be especially useful for those interested in the relationship between literature and practising medicine.Trade Review"Contemporary Physicians-Authors demonstrates that most of today's writers speak in a self-aware, reflective voice that keeps them close to the ground, while they also retain the flexibility to take a more bird's-eye view to comment, report, and advocate. The book's primary audience is academic (e.g., students and professors of medical humanities), but anyone who has read a few or more of these authors is likely to find something of interest and perhaps discover a brand-new author to investigate."-Jack Coulehan, Journal of Medical HumanitiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part One: Two Traditional Representatives. 1.Richard Selzer: Three Troubling Tales of Physicians’ Peculiar Behavior 2.Oliver Sacks: A Kind of Reminiscence. Part Two: Three Contemporary Favorites. 3.Perri Klass: Books Are Like Stethoscopes. 4.Abraham Verghese: The Power of Storytelling. 5.Atul Gawande: Doctoring, Dying, and the Pursuit of "Better". Part Three: Medicine, Meaning, and Identity. 6.Danielle Ofri: Offering Lessons for All. 7.Paul Kalanithi: Sometimes, They Break—Craft as a Window. 8.Joanna Cannon: Leaving Medicine to Pursue a Physician’s Calling. 9.Damon Tweedy: Stories on Being Black, Sick, and Marginalized. 10.Fady Joudah: An Exploration of Borders and Boundaries. 11.Louise Aronson: Using Facts and Stories to Improve Medical Care for Older Adults. 12.Marc Agronin: Into the Heart of Growing Old. Part Four: Alternative Models. 13.David Watts and Frank Huyler: A Tale of Two Patients, 14.Siddhartha Mukherjee: Tending and Extending—The Long and Short of Siddhartha Mukherjee. 15.Arthur Kleinman: Professional Caregiving Narratives Become Personal
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Poetic Forms
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Poetic Forms offers specimen discussions of poems through the lens of form. While each of its chapters does provide a standard definition of the form in question in its opening paragraphs, their main objective is to provide readings of specific examples to illustrate how individual poets have deviated from or subverted those expectations usually associated with the form under discussion. While providing the most vital information on the most widely taught forms of poetry, then, this collection will very quickly demonstrate that counting syllables and naming rhyme schemes is not the be-all and end-all of poetic form. Instead, each chapter will contain cross-references to other literary forms and periods as well as make clear the importance of the respective form to the culture at large: be it the democratising communicative power of the ballad or the objectifying male gaze of the blazon and resistance to same in the contreblazon the efficacy of form is exTable of Contents1 Introduction: Repetition and VariationPatrick GillSECTION ONEElements of Form2 RhymeStefan Blohm and Christine A. Knoop3 MetreJesper Kruse4 Toeing and Breaking the Line: On Enjambment and CaesuraHeather H. Yeung5 Persona: Its Meaning and SignificanceJames Dowthwaite6 Poetry in PerformanceJessica BundschuhSECTION TWOPoetic Forms7 The BalladCatherine Charlwood8 Blank VerseCalista McRae9 The BlazonJordan Kistler10 Concrete PoetryTymon Adamczewski11 The Dramatic MonologueGabriella Hartvig12 Ekphrastic PoetryAnja Müller-Wood13 The ElegyPatrick Gill 14 The EpicRachael Sumner15 Free VerseAndrew Rowcroft16 The Heroic CoupletAlex Streim17 The Long PoemPatrick Gill and Miguel Juan Gronow Smith18 Mock-Heroic PoetryPurificación Ribes Traver19 The OdeFlorian Klaeger20 The Prospect PoemRoslyn Irving21 The SestinaMatthew Kilbane22 The SonnetPatrick Gill23 The VillanellePatrick Gill
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Taylor & Francis Updating the Interpretive Turn
Book SynopsisThis book explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates.While hermeneutics seems to be firmly established as a tradition and methodology in the human sciences, interpretive philosophy seems to be under increasing pressure in recent philosophical trends such as the posthuman turn, the nonhuman turn, and the speculative turn. Responding to this predicament, this book shows how hermeneutics is gaining new force and fresh applications today by bringing together a group of leading interpretive philosophers to address such timely topics as the entanglement of social science, culture, and politics in liberal capitalist societies, the extremism with which some identities are held within those societies, the possibility of genuine, non-relativist dialogue in a post-truth era, the nature of the strong moral judgments people tend to make in that era, the significance of interpretation for
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Voices of the Korean Comfort Women
Book SynopsisAn innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, including teenagers, euphemistically referred to in Japanese documents as Comfort Women, were shipped to the vastly expanded battlefronts throughout the Japan-occupied territories covering Northern China to Myanmar and to the South Pacific Islands. Many of these girls died, were killed or abandoned during and after the war, but a small percentage of them returned only to face yet another devastating war at home and lasting social stigma.In Voices of the Korean Comfort Women, nine survivors tell their traumatic life stories as to how they were taken, how they had been treated with atrocities at the Comfort Stations, and how they had survived through not only the Pacific War but also the Korean War and beyond. These often-harrowing personal testimonies are each expanded by the interviewer's observational notes, thereby providing Table of ContentsAcknowledgments, Preface to the English Translation, “Now Halmŏni (Grandmother) Talks to Us in English”: Method of Translation and Its Significance, Introduction to Korean Compilation: How to Read This Collection of The Testimony Team, Glossary, Guide to Typographical Symbols, Testimonies of Comfort Women 1. Hwa-sŏn Kim (김화선) 2. Ch’ang-yŏn Kim (김창연) 3. Ok-sŏn Han (한옥선) 4. Yŏng-ja Kim (김영자) 5. Kap-sun Ch’oe (최갑순) 6. Yun-hong An (안윤홍) 7. Sun-man Na (나순만) 8. Pok-tong Kim (김복동) 9. Pŏp-sun An (안법순) Appendix I. Comfort Women and the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery System Appendix II. Discussion Group Guide Appendix III. [Map] Places where the Victims were Stationed as Comfort Women
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern
Book SynopsisModern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lensesthe universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literatureand touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd SelfReflective Fiction and 4E Cognition
Book SynopsisThis book brings together the study of self-reflective fiction and the contemporary 4E theories of cognition in order to challenge existing cognitive-theoretical models and approaches to literary phenomena. Polvinen presents reflective attention on artifice as an integral part of engagement with fictional narratives, rather than as an external viewpoint that would obscure immersive experiences. The detailed analyses included are both of traditionally metafictional texts by John Barth, A.S. Byatt, Dave Eggers, and Ali Smith, as well as of speculative fictions by Ted Chiang, China Miéville, Christopher Priest, and Catherynne M. Valente. Each of the chapters focuses on a specific issue of fictional cognition: on metaphorical representation, spatiality, temporality, and fictionality. As a whole, the book argues that by combining a literary and theoretically complex view of artifice with the enactive paradigm of perception and imagination, practitioners of cognitive literary studiTrade ReviewMerja Polvinen’s Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition productively challenges the idea that immersion in narrative involves losing awareness of literary form. It rethinks the act of reading by combining close discussion of speculative fiction with a sophisticated cognitive theory of narrative.- Marco Caracciolo, Associate Professor of English, Ghent University, Belgium Fictional worlds that pull you in by showing you how they are made, self-referential narrators and a double-take on perception through literary texts: Drawing on cutting-edge cognitive science and literary studies, Merja Polvinen lifts the curtain on how literature works its magic.- Professor Karin Kukkonen, University of Oslo, Norway.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: An Enactive Approach to Self-Reflective Fiction The Metaphorical Seeing-As 2.1 ‘A Clean, Bright Paradox’: A.S. Byatt’s Self-Conscious Realism in Still Life 2.2 Speculative Fiction, Self-Reflection and Literal Narratology in Catherynne M. Valente’s ‘Silently and Very Fast’ The Artificial Spatiality of Literary Environments 3.1 Enactive Perception and Fictional Worlds: China Miéville’s The City & The City 3.2 Making Space: Affordances and Literary Engagement in Ali Smith’s There but for the Temporality and Embodied Knowledge The Speed of Thought in John Barth’s ‘On with the Story’ Self-Reflective Knowledge and Narrative Emotions in Ted Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life’ Fictionality as Artifice Affect and Artifice in Dave Eggers’s The Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Double Vision and the Instrumental Value of Fiction: Christopher Priest’s The Prestige
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Taylor & Francis Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and
Book SynopsisProfessor Riccardo Moratto and Professor Defeng Li present contributions focusing on the interdisciplinarity of corpus studies, with a special emphasis on literary and translation studies which offer a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches. Inside scholars share their research findings concerning current advances in corpus applications in literary and translation studies and explore possible and tangible collaborative research projects. The volume is split into two sections focusing on the applications of corpora in literary studies and translation studies. Issues explored include historical backgrounds, current trends, theories, methodologies, operational methods, and techniques, as well as training of research students.This international, dynamic, and interdisciplinary exploration of corpus studies and corpus application in various cultural contexts and different countries will provide valuable insights for any researcher in literar
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Taylor & Francis Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare
Book SynopsisBringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a âcrime of passionâ â indicatively, wife-killing.Its key concern is to bring attention to a cultural and legal revolution widely overlooked even in the law field where it occurred. In 2009, the English Parliament passed a controversial law abolishing the defence of provocation. Explaining the new law, reformers said that this so-called âheat of passionâ defence had allowed men to get away with murder by blaming the victim. Abolishing it in cases of alleged âinfidelityâ would âend the culture of excusesâ. Unpacking what was at stake in the reformersâ revolutionary challenge to the English law of murderâs age-old concession to âhuman frailtyâ in âred mistâ rage cases, this book charts passionâs progress in wife-killing cases over the centuries. It commences in the early modern era when jurists were busy distinguishing murder from manslaughter and, contemporaneo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Law Literature and Violence Against Women
Book SynopsisThis book engages legal and literary texts in order to examine acquaintance crimes, such as rape, sexual harassment, stalking, and domestic abuse, and to challenge how the victimâs physical or psychological freeze response is commonly and inaccurately mistaken for her consent.Following increased interest in the #MeToo movement and the discoveries of sexual abuse by numerous public figures, this book analyzes themes in law and literature that discredit victims and protect wrongdoers. Interpreting a present-day novel alongside legislation and written court cases, each chapter pairs a fictional text with a nonfictional counterpart. In these pairings, the themes, events, and arguments of each are carefully unpacked and compared against one another. As the cross-readings unfold, we learn that a victim does not ask for it, and she should not arouse suspicions just because she does not fight, run away, or report the crime. Instead, and as this book demonstrates, the more common and most practical response is to become physically and mentally paralyzed by fear; the victim dissociates, shuts down, and remains stuck in the fright and captivity of abuse.This book will interest scholars and students working in, and especially at the intersection of, law, literature, gender studies, and criminology.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory
Book SynopsisA Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory offers an accessible introduction to all the current approaches to literary analysis. Ranging from stylistics and historicism to post-humanism and new materialism, it also includes chapters on media studies and screen studies.The Guide is designed for use in introductory literature courses and as a primer in theory courses. Each chapter summarizes the main ideas of each approach to the study of literature in clear prose, providing lucid introductions to the practice of each school, and conducts readings using classic and modern works of literature from around the world. The book draws on examples from a wide range of works from classics such as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Shakespeare''s King Lear to contemporary works such as Ocean Vuong''s On Earth We''re Briefly Gorgeous and Amanda Gorman''s The Hill We Climb.This wide-ranging introduction is ideal for students encounTable of Contents1. Formalism 2. Stylistics 3. Historicism 4. Philosophy 5.Psychology 6. Marxism 7. Structuralism, Semiology, Postmodernism 8. Gender 9. Ethnicity 10. Global Studies 11. Post-Humanism, Environmental Humanities, New Materialism 12. Science 13. Politics 14. Media Studies 15. Screen Studies
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Taylor & Francis The Origins of the Grand Tour 16491663 The
Book SynopsisFocusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century figures such as John Evelyn), this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the ''Grand Tour''. Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and eighteenth-century activity, the basis of the long term English fascination with the ''Grand Tour'' was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy, the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism, and the expediencies of political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian families, as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals back home as well as broadening their intelTable of ContentsThe Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster Maynard
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities is a guide to the concepts and theories at the intersection of Canadian literary studies and digital humanities (DH). Equal parts theoretical and practical, it focuses on debates that overlap the two domains. This book historicizes the connections between the two by surveying the history of DH in Canada, the tradition of Canadian writers engaging with technology, and DH analyses of Canadian literature. It also situates both CanLit and DH with respect to contemporary concerns about alterity, and it demonstrates how digital technologies allow writers and scholars to intervene in them.This book complements its theoretical discussions with a practical introduction to DH methods. Using Canadian literary texts and examples from projects at the intersection of CanLit and DH, it introduces key DH approaches to novice readers. Topics covered include data collection, data management, and textual analysis, as well as essential DH tools and the Python programming language. A concluding case study guides readers interested in applying the ideas presented throughout.
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Taylor & Francis Empathyâs Role in Understanding Persons
Book SynopsisThis volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathyâs role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section on historical theories of empathyâs role in understanding.When it comes to understanding other persons, empathy is typically seen as a process that enables the empathizer to recognize a target personâs mental states, a process which is in turn seen as âœunderstandingâ this person. This volume, however, explores empathyâs role in understanding beyond mere mental state recognition. With contributions on processes of interpersonal understanding and understanding of literature and art, it provides readers with an overview over both differences and similarities regarding empathyâs epistemic role in two rather different areas. Since important roots of the debate about empathic understanding lie at the end of the nineteenth and the beTable of ContentsEmpathic Understanding. Historical and Recent Perspectives on Empathy’s Role in Social Cognition and Aesthetics Thomas Petraschka and Christiana Werner Section 1: Empathy and Understanding Other Persons 1. Empathy Skills and Habits Shannon Spaulding 2. Can interactional approaches solve the empathy-sharing conundrum? Stefano Vincini 3. Seeing Others as Ends in Themselves. From the Empathic to the Moral Point of View Catrin Misselhorn 4. Experience and Understanding in Response to Holocaust Testimony Anja Berninger 5. Murdochian Self-Empathy Eva-Maria Düringer 6. The Structure of Rational Agency and the Phenomenal Dimensions of Empathic Understanding Karsten R. Stueber Section 2: Empathy and Understanding Literature and Art 7. Is There a Role for Emotion in Literary Criticism? Peter Lamarque 8. Empathy, Fiction, and Non-Fiction Derek Matravers 9. “Tell me, how does it feel?” – Learning what it is like through literature Christiana Werner 10. Affective Resonance and Narrative Immersion Suzanne Keen 11. Empathy for the devil Claudia Hillebrandt 12. “Empathy is a swindle!” – or is it? Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as an empathy test for readers Eva-Maria Konrad Section 3: The History of Empathic Understanding 13. Imagination in Early Phenomenological Accounts of Empathy Íngrid Vendrell Ferran 14. I Feel You: Toward a Schelerian Conception of Empathy Jean Moritz Müller 15. “[T]heirs is the future way of studying aesthetics” – Vernon Lee and the German Aesthetics of Empathy Thomas Petraschka 16. Vernon Lee’s Aesthetics: Empathy, Emotion, and Embodiment Jesse Prinz 17. Empathy and Enjoyment. On the use of reproductions in school practice after 1900 Joseph Imorde 18. How Der Blaue Reiter reacted to Worringer’s interpretation of Lipps’s Schiller-based theory of empathy Robin Rehm
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Pocket Diary of a SENCO
Book SynopsisThe Pocket Diary of a SENCO spans a typical school year and includes hopeful and often humorous diary entries that share the authentic aspirations, joys and frustrations of championing inclusion and working in the role of a SENCO. Grounded in real-life experiences and day-to-day practice, Pippa McLean describes the experiences of a SENCO and the reality of SEND provision in school, drawing out the personal characteristics and values that schools can foster to support inclusive practice and nurture positive relationships between children, parents and colleagues. Diary extracts across the months range from Be ready to hit the road', Be gentle on yourself', to Be a culture builder'' and Be an advocate''. Each entry is followed by reflective questions and space for the reader to jot down their own thoughts, as well as monthly musings' to support their own professional development. Written in a truly conversational style, this essential pocket diary cTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTIONSEPTEMBEROCTOBERNOVEMBERDECEMBERJANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRILMAY JUNEJULYAUGUSTEPILOGUEABOUT THE AUTHORINDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in
Book SynopsisA Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese is the first comprehensive work on the subject that constitutes a new approach to teaching and learning by providing both a reference tool and a reader.This dictionary can serve both as a reference book and as an anthology for teaching and learning literary Chinese (the premodern written language) and both ancient and contemporary Chinese culture. It differs from the traditional design of dictionaries in that it includes detailed explanations, with examples, for different uses of the graphs most often used to represent function words in literary Chinese. To facilitate teaching and learning through association, the early meaning, extended meanings, and borrowed meanings for each graph are provided, along with explanations supported by the various stages of the historical development of the graph and other relevant research. Each word is grouped into the primary word class to which it belongs, based on iTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsUser’s GuideDesign of the DictionaryAbbreviationsEntriesān 安 ānsuǒ 安所 bù 不 bùyì 不亦…hū乎 dàn 但 ér 而 érhòu 而后/而後 éryǐ 而已 éryǐyǐ 而已矣 ěr 耳 ěryǐ 耳矣 ěr 爾 yún’ěr云爾 fēi 非 fǒu 否 fú 夫 fú 弗 gài 蓋 gǎn 敢 gǒu 苟 gù 固 hé 何 hé rú 何如 héqí 何其 hé wèi 何為 hé yǐ 何以 héyǒu 何有 hé 曷 hé 盍 hū 乎 hū’ér 乎而/乎爾 hūzāi 乎哉 huò 或 jī/jǐ幾 jiàn/xiàn 見 kuàng 況mò 莫 mò. . . yú 莫……於 nǎi 乃 (迺/廼) qí 其 qǐ 豈 qiě 且 qǐng 請 rán 然 ránhòu 然後 ruò 若 ruò ……hé 若……何 shì 是 shú 孰 shú yǔ孰與 sī 斯 sīxū 斯須 suǒ 所 suǒ yǐ 所以 wéi為 wéi 唯 wéi 唯…shì 是 wéi 唯…zhī 之 wéi 惟 wū 惡 wú 亡 wú 毋 wúnǎi 毋乃/無乃 wú 無 wù 勿 xī 奚 xìn 信 yān 焉 yé 邪/耶 yě 也 yǐ 以 yǐ wéi 以為 yǐ 矣 yì 亦 yú 于 yú 與 zāi 哉 zhě 者 zhī 之 zhū 諸 Glossary of Technical Terms Bibliography Index of idioms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in
Book SynopsisA Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese is the first comprehensive work on the subject that constitutes a new approach to teaching and learning by providing both a reference tool and a reader.This dictionary can serve both as a reference book and as an anthology for teaching and learning literary Chinese (the premodern written language) and both ancient and contemporary Chinese culture. It differs from the traditional design of dictionaries in that it includes detailed explanations, with examples, for different uses of the graphs most often used to represent function words in literary Chinese. To facilitate teaching and learning through association, the early meaning, extended meanings, and borrowed meanings for each graph are provided, along with explanations supported by the various stages of the historical development of the graph and other relevant research. Each word is grouped into the primary word class to which it belongs, based on iTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsUser’s GuideDesign of the DictionaryAbbreviationsEntriesān 安 ānsuǒ 安所 bù 不 bùyì 不亦…hū乎 dàn 但 ér 而 érhòu 而后/而後 éryǐ 而已 éryǐyǐ 而已矣 ěr 耳 ěryǐ 耳矣 ěr 爾 yún’ěr云爾 fēi 非 fǒu 否 fú 夫 fú 弗 gài 蓋 gǎn 敢 gǒu 苟 gù 固 hé 何 hé rú 何如 héqí 何其 hé wèi 何為 hé yǐ 何以 héyǒu 何有 hé 曷 hé 盍 hū 乎 hū’ér 乎而/乎爾 hūzāi 乎哉 huò 或 jī/jǐ幾 jiàn/xiàn 見 kuàng 況mò 莫 mò. . . yú 莫……於 nǎi 乃 (迺/廼) qí 其 qǐ 豈 qiě 且 qǐng 請 rán 然 ránhòu 然後 ruò 若 ruò ……hé 若……何 shì 是 shú 孰 shú yǔ孰與 sī 斯 sīxū 斯須 suǒ 所 suǒ yǐ 所以 wéi為 wéi 唯 wéi 唯…shì 是 wéi 唯…zhī 之 wéi 惟 wū 惡 wú 亡 wú 毋 wúnǎi 毋乃/無乃 wú 無 wù 勿 xī 奚 xìn 信 yān 焉 yé 邪/耶 yě 也 yǐ 以 yǐ wéi 以為 yǐ 矣 yì 亦 yú 于 yú 與 zāi 哉 zhě 者 zhī 之 zhū 諸 Glossary of Technical Terms Bibliography Index of idioms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Victorian Coral Islands of Empire Mission and the
Book SynopsisAttending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children's textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British pres
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Taylor & Francis The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisThe Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction explores the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection of speculative fictions: non-mimetic works that start from the implied question What if? Spanning slightly more than two centuries of speculative fiction, from the starting point in Mary Shelleyâs 1818 Frankenstein to contemporary works that engage with the vast ramifications of anthropogenic climate change, analyses demonstrate how Arctic discourses are supported or subverted and how new Arctics are added to the textual tradition. To illuminate wider lines of inquiry informing the way the world is envisioned, humanityâs place and function in it, and more-than-human entanglements, analyses focus on the function of the actual Arctic and how this function impacts and is impacted by speculative elements. With effects of climate change training the global eye on the Arctic, and as debates around future northern cultural, economic and environmental sustainability intensify, there is a need for a deepened understanding of the discourses that have constructed and are constructing the Arctic. A careful mapping and serious consideration of both past and contemporary speculative visions thus illuminate the role the Arctic has played and may come to play in a diverse set of practices and fields.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ComputerAssisted Literary Translation
Book SynopsisThis collection surveys the state of the art of computer-assisted literary translation (CALT), making the case for its potential to enhance literary translation research and practice.The volume brings together early career and established scholars from around the world in countering prevailing notions around the challenges of effectively implementing contemporary CALT applications in literary translation practice which has traditionally followed the model of a single translator focused on a single work. The book begins by addressing key questions on the definition of literary translation, examining its sociological dimensions and individual translator perspective. Chapters explore the affordances of technological advancements and availability of new tools in such areas as post-edited machine translation (PEMT) in expanding the boundaries of what we think of when we think of literary translation, looking to examples from developments in co-translation, collaborative translation, crowd-sourced translation and fan translation. As the first book of its kind dedicated to the contribution CALT in its various forms can add to existing and future scholarship, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars in Translation Studies, especially those working in literary translation, machine translation and translation technologies.Table of ContentsIntroduction ANDREW ROTHWELL, ANDY WAY AND ROY YOUDALEPart 1: The Automated and Post-Edited Machine Translation of Literature1 Literary-Adapted Machine Translation in a Well-Resourced Language Pair: Explorations with More Data and Wider ContextsANTONIO TORAL, ANDREAS VAN CRANENBURGH, AND TIA NUTTERS2 ‘I Am a Bit Surprised’: Literary Translation and Post-Editing Processes CompareWALTRAUD KOLB3 Mark My Keywords: A Translator-Specific Exploration of Style in Literary Machine TranslationMARION WINTERS AND DOROTHY KENNYPart 2: Machine Translation Applications in Literary Translation4 MT and CAT: Challenges, Irrelevancies or Opportunities for Literary Translation?JAMES LUKE HADLEY5 Retranslating Proust Using CAT, MT and Other ToolsANDREW ROTHWELL6 Author-Tailored Neural Machine Translation Systems for Literary WorksANTONI OLIVER7 Machine Translation of Chinese Fantasy (Xianxia) Novels: An Investigation Into the Leading Websites Translating Chinese Internet Literature Into EnglishSHUYIN ZHANG8 Up and About, or Betwixt and Between?: The Poetry of a Translation MachineTIM VAN DE CRUYS9 Metaphor in Literary Machine Translation: Style, Creativity and LiterarinessALETTA G. DORSTPart 3: Corpus Linguistics, Text-Visualisation and Literary Translation10 KonText in Trilingual Studies—Supporting Phraseology Translation Based on the EPB CorpusANGELIKA PELJAK-ŁAPIŃSKA11 Voyant Tools’ Little Outing: How a Text Reading and Analysis Environment Can Help Literary TranslatorsLISA HORENBERG12 (Re)creating Equivalence of Stylistic Effect: A Corpus-Aided MethodologyTEREZA ŠPLÍCHALOVÁPart 4: Applying Specialised Electronic Tools to Literary Translation13 The ExperimentAVRAHAM J. ROOS14 Augmenting and Informing the Translation Process through Workflow-Enabled CALT ToolsSASHA MILE RUDAN, EUGENIA KELBERT, LAZAR KOVACEVIC, MATTHEW REYNOLDS, AND SINISHA RUDAN
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Writers of the New African Diaspora
Book SynopsisThis book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book inspires critical readings of these writers' works by revealing emerging trends in women's literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects, the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations, constructions of home and belonging, as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the importance of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home aTrade Review"Uwakweh’s lucid, highly relevant book compellingly explores the meanings of gendered African migratory experiences from emigration and transnationalism to reverse migration. In this valuable account of contemporary Afrodiasporic women’s writing, the discussion of the aesthetics of mobile technologies and the conceptualization of diasporic returns provide particularly refreshing insights into migration mobilities in fiction."Anna-Leena Toivanen, Academy Research Fellow, University of Eastern Finland, Finland"Uwakweh takes us beyond the now familiar concept of the Afropolitan to consider other matters of interest to female writers of the new African diaspora, including perceptions of history, generational differences, and professional development among others. In so doing, she opens up new vistas for critical engagement with these writers." Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis, USA"Women Writers of the New African Diaspora provides a timely addition to dialogs about African women writers’ explorations of the combined impact of mobility, transnationalism, religion and Afropolitan identities on gender and immigration. A compelling examination of the roots-and-routes of Black identity in contemporary Africa’s ongoing transnational literary project." Anthonia C. Kalu, University of California-Riverside, USA"With eight outstanding works of fiction as a lens, Uwakweh illuminates foundations and feeders of female Diasporan transformations, agency and empowerment. This is a groundbreaking work that offers historic and current perspectives in contextualizing the modern African woman in a manner that is at once thoroughgoing, erudite, insightful and accessible." Benjamin Kwakye novelist and poet, winner of the 1999 and 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prizes (Africa Region) "Uwakweh’s comprehensive study of eight, transnational African women writers exploring the different intersectionalities specific to women migrants significantly adds to the growing scholarship of Afrodiasporic literature. Her insightful analysis of the characters’ complex relationships between their host and home countries underscores the need for new paradigms for theorizing African literature." Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, Professor Emerita, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Transnationalism and New African Diaspora Women Writers: An Overview PART I: EMIGRATION: (En)gendering Transnationalism, Mobilities, and Politics of Representation 1. Power of the Story: Mediating Africa’s Diasporic Ruptures in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing 2. Specters of Slavery, Sites of Violence: Reading Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street as a Neo-Slave Narrative 3. Mobilities as Transnational Literary Aesthetics in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah PART II: NEGOTIATION: Transnational Identities, Home, and Intersectional Contexts 4. Navigating the American Dream: Diaspora Families and Transnational Dilemmas in Mbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers 5. ‘The Home of Things Falling Apart’: Narrating and Performing Home(land) in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names 6. Enter the Afropolitan: Taiye Selasi’s Cultural Significations in Ghana Must Go 7. Narrative Identity in Ancestor Stones: Aminatta Forna’s Postcolonial and Revisionist Discourse 8. Gendered Journeys and Self-Discovery: The Transnational Context in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons PART III: RETURNS: Reverse Migration, Ambivalent Returns, and Making Sense of Homeland 9. Theorizing Homeland Returns in Transnational Women’s Narratives 10: Conclusion: Telescoping the Future of New African Diaspora Women’s Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd TwentyFirst Century Arab and African Diasporas in
Book SynopsisThis volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and Mahjari (South American and Mexican authors of Arab descent) experiences in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches, the authors explore the ways in which individual writers and artists negotiate the geographical, cultural, and historical parameters of their own diasporic trajectories influenced by their particular locations at home and elsewhere. At the same time, this volume sheds light on issues related to Spain, Portugal, and Latin American racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of the Middle East and Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American economic crunches in shaping attitudes towards immigration. This collection of thought-provoking chapters extends the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism, forcing the reader to reassess their prTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I. SPAIN1 Integration, School, and the Children of North African Immigrants in Spain2 Finding and Recording the Invisible: The Porteadoras of the Spanish-Moroccan Border in Documentary Film3 Saharaui Women Writers in Spain: Voices of Resistance in Mil y un poemas saharauis II [One Thousand and One Saharaui Poems II]4 Sex, Identity, and Narration in the Equatoguinean Diaspora5 Mothering, Mestizaje and the Future of Spain PART II. PORTUGAL 6 Black Migration, Citizenship, and Racial Capital in Post-Imperial Portugal7 We Are Not Your Negroes: Analyzing Mural Representations of Blackness in Lisbon Metropolitan Area8 Reclaiming an Individual Space: The Angolan Diaspora in Portugal9 Luso-Arabic Poetry: Reviewing the Concept10 Portugal Against the Moors in the 21st Century: Invisible Diasporas and the "Mediatic Romanticism" of a Contemporary OperaPART III. LATIN AMERICA11 Chilestinians and Journalism12 Writing South, Facing East: Arab Argentine Narratives13 Chronicling "the Death of the Arab" in Colombian Literature14 The Otherness That Remains. The Past From The Future: Cuaderno de Chihuahua [Chihuahua Notebook] by Jeannette Lozano Clariond15 The Idea of Translation in Ancient Tillage, by Raduan Nassar
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Literary Theory The Basics
Book SynopsisNow in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies, and ecocriticism.Literary Theory: The Basics shows, in an always lucid and accessible style, how literary theory and practice are connected, and considers key theories and approaches including: humanist criticism; structuralist and poststructuralist theory; postcolonial theory; posthumanism, ecocriticism, and animal studies; digital humanities and print culture studies. Literary theory has much to say about the wider world of humanities and beyond, and this guide helps readers to approach the many theories and debates with confidence. Expanded with updates throughout, this is the go-to guide for understanding literary theory today.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeare The Basics
Book SynopsisShakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare's plays, Sean McEvoy considers the language, cultural contexts and modern interpretations.This essential guide to a range of contemporary Shakespearean criticism explores and unpacks the different dramatic genres in which he wrote comedy, history, tragedy and romance. It also provides a wealth of relevant and concise information on the historical, social and political contexts in which the plays were produced and have been understood. Extensively updated throughout, the fourth edition provides: A comprehensive account of Shakespearean tragedy for students. An introduction to ecocritical, ethical and queer readings of the plays. Analysis of notable recent Shakespeare film
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and German Colonialism
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism. Gender and German Colonialism is concerned with colonialism as a historical phenomenon and with the repercussions and transformations of the colonial era in contemporary racist and sexist discourses and practices relating to refugees, migrants, and people of non-European descent living in Europe. This volume contributes to the broader effort of decolonization, with particular attention to concepts of gender. Rather than focus on only one European empire, it discusses and compares multiple former colonial powers in context. In addition to German colonialism, some chapters focus on the role of gender in Dutch and Belgian colonialism in Indonesia, Africa, and the Americas.This volume will be of value to students and scholars interested in women's and gender studies, social and cultural history, and imperial and colonial history.Table of ContentsPart 1:Intimacies1. Farming Frontiers: The German Woman PioneerPatricia Anne Simpson2. Working for Weihnachtsstimmung: German Women’s Role in Recreating German Culture and Identity in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa, 1894–1906Kate McGregor3. Colonialism and the Politics of Gender and Literature in the Netherlands Indies: The Story of the NyaiCarl Niekerk4. Repairing Relations: Gendered Encounters in the Dutch East Indies in Wilhelmina Kruijtbosch’s novel Het witte doekSimon RichterPart 2: Accountabilities5. Reading Sojourner Truth’s Narrative (1850) as a Pioneering Literary Denouncement of Dutch ColonialismJeroen DeWulf6. German Women and the Dissemination of Colonial Ideology (1907–1920) Adèle Douanla and Ésaie Djomo7. White Women Saving White Men: Women Writers in Belgian and German Colonial LiteratureRobrecht De Boodt and Anke Gilleir 8. Colonial Revisionism and German Imperialism in Senta Dinglreiter’s National Socialist Writings Joseph Kebe-Nguema9. Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity Verena HutterPart 3: Intersections10. Colonial Philology and Its Erotic Imaginaries: Kālidāsa’s Sìakuntalā in GermanyTanvi Solanki11. Völkisch Nationalism and Its Unfolding in the Colonial Context: Adda von Liliencron’s Historical Novels Giovanna (1881) and Nach Südwestafrika (1906) Aylin Bademsoy12. Maria Theresia Ledóchowska as an Activist in the Religious Colonization of AfricaEsaie Djomo and Dorine Mbeudom 13. From Colonialism to Contemporary Racism: Retelling (Male) Master Narratives from the Perspective of Marginalized Women in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Fictional TextsMartina Kofer14. De-Naturalizing Gender and National Belonging: Literary and Essayistic Interventions by Otoo and YaghoobifarahHelga Druxes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Examining Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun
Book SynopsisExamining Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as Counternarrative: Understanding the Black Family and Black Students shows how and why Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, should be used as a teaching tool to help educators develop a more accurate and authentic understanding of the Black Family.The purpose of this book is to help educators develop a greater awareness of Black children and youth's, humanity, academic potential and learning capacity, and for teachers to develop the consciousness to disavow white supremacy, American exceptionalism, myths, racial innocence, and personal absolution within the education system. This counternarrative responds to the flawed and racist perceptions, stereotypes, and tropes that are perpetuated in schools and society about the African American family and Black students in US schools. It is deliberative and reverberating in addressing anti-Black racism. It argues that, if Education is to be reimTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter One: "Write if you will but Write About the World As It Is and As You Think It Ought to Be…"Chapter Two: Invisibility and Visibility: Do You See Me? Do You Want to?Chapter Three: Representation Matters: Black Body, Black Family, Black Life and Reasoning RaisinChapter Four: Teachers’ Talk after Watching Raisin, Lorraine, Yesterday into Today and Life BioChapter Five: A Raisin in the Sun, Words and Work of Lorraine HansberryChapter Six: On Being "Young, Gifted, and Black"
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Expression of Emotion in the Visual Arts
Book SynopsisThe visual arts have long been held to have an intimate link with the emotions. Despite this, the topic remains underexplored; when the expression of emotion is discussed it is usually in relation to music.This volume corrects this lacuna and presents a variety of perspectives on the expression of emotion in the visual arts with contributions from both established and early career academics. There are chapters on the empathy theory of beauty; enaction and artistic expression; emotion and experimental psychology; a ''persona'' theory of visual expression; and self-expression in portraiture. There are also chapters discussing the contributions to the topic by of Susanne Langer and Richard Wollheim, as well as a chapter comparing the work of R.G. Collingwood and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.The Expression of Emotion in the Visual Arts will be of interest to students and researchers in the philosophy of art and aesthetics as well as those interested in conceptual issues in
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fuzzy Language in Literature and Translation
Book SynopsisBringing a fuzzy logic-based approach into translation studies and drawing on the theory of information entropy, this book discusses the translation of fuzzy language in literary works and advances a new method of measuring text fuzziness between translation and source text.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Emotionality
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the projections of romantic love and its progression in a selection of popular romance novels and identifies an innovation within the genre's formula and structure. Taking into account Giddens's notion of confluent' love, this book argues that two forms of love exist within these texts: romantic and confluent love. The analysis of these love variants suggests that a continuum emerges which signifies the complexity but also the formation and progressive nature of the protagonists' love relationships. This continuum is divided into three stages: the pre-personal, semi-personal, and personal. The first phase connotes the introduction of the protagonists and describes the sexual attraction they experience for each other. The second phase refers to the initiation of the sexual interaction between the heroine and hero without any emotional involvement. The third and final phase begins when emotions such as jealousy, shame/guilt, anger, and self-sacrifice are awakened
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Afrofuturism
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes, understandings, and interdisciplinary topics across multiple genres in Black literature, film, and music. From Afrofuturism's origins to the present, this critical volume features scholarly works, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction which illuminates on the contributions of notable Afrofuturists such as Octavia Bulter, Sun Ra, N.K. Jemisin, Janelle Monáe, Nnedi Okorafor, Saul Williams, Prince, and more. The volume highlights the impact of films such as Black Panther (2018, 2022), The Woman King (2022), and They Cloned Tyrone (2023) and covers a variety of essential topics giving students a comprehensive view of the legacy of storytelling and the tradition of remixing in Black literature and arts. This volume makes connections across academic subject areas and is an engaging reader for pop culture and media film studies, women's, gender,
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