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University of Tartu Press Neuroscience and Translation
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£66.30
Bloomsbury Publishing USA Translating the Nonhuman
Book SynopsisExtends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation.The so-called fictional turn in translation studies has staked out territory previously unclaimed by translation scholars territory in which translators are portrayed as full human beings in their social environments but so far no one has looked to science fiction for truly radical explorations of translation. Translating the Nonhuman fills that gap, exploring speculative attempts to cross the yawning chasm between human and nonhuman languages and cultures.The book consists of three essays, each bringing a different theoretical orientation to bear on a different science-fiction work. The first studies Samuel R. Delany's 1966 novel, Babel-17, using Peircean semiotics; the second studies Suzette Haden Elgin's 1984 novel, Native Tongue, using Austinian performativity and Eve Sedwick's periperformative corrective; and the third studies Ted Chiang's 1998 novella, Story of Your Life, and its 2016 screen adaptation, Arrival, using sustainability theory. Themes include the 1950s clash between Whorfian untranslatability and the possibility of unbounded (machine) translatability; the performative ability of a language to change reality and the reliance of that ability on the periperformativity of witnesses; and alienation from the familiar in space and time and its transformative effect on the biological and cultural sustainability of human life on earth. Through these close readings and varied theoretical approaches, Translating the Nonhuman provides a tentative mapping of science fiction''s usefulness for the study of human-(non)human translation, with translators and interpreters acting as explorers of new ways to communicate.
£71.25
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Literature as Sound Studies
£85.50
State University of New York Press Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience
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State University of New York Press The Critical Shusterman
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£97.09
Academic Studies Press World Literature in the Soviet Union
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one could learn from the Soviet attention to world literature; as such, the present volume makes a significant contribution to current debates on world literature beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies and foregrounds the need to think of world literature pluralistically, in a manner that is not restricted by the agendas of Anglophone academe.Trade Review"World Literature in the Soviet Union demonstrates persuasively that World Literature can be productively conceptualised and analysed as a set of discrete grand projects, each with its own historically and culturally specific institutional and ideological underpinnings. The volume explores in both breadth and depth how Soviet projects of World Literature developed in tandem with the evolution of the Soviet Union’s more general politico-cultural positioning in the world. It at the same time provides important insights into the role that the idea of World Literature played in Soviet constructions of both internationalism and multiculturalism."— Professor Andy Byford, Durham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGalin Tihanov, Rossen Djagalov, Anne Lounsbery 1. World Literature in the Soviet Union: Infrastructure and Ideological HorizonsGalin Tihanov 2. On the Worldliness of Russian LiteratureAnne Lounsbery 3. Armenian Literature as World Literature: Phases of Shaping it in the Pre-Soviet and Stalinist ContextsSusanne Frank 4. The Roles of "Form" and "Content" in World Literature as Discussed by Viktor Shklovsky in His Writings of the Immediately Post-Revolutionary Years Katerina Clark 5. “The Treasure Trove of World Literature”: Shaping the Concept of World Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia Maria Khotimsky 6. The Birth of New out of Old: Translation in Early Soviet HistorySergey Tyulenev 7. International Literature: A Multi-Language Soviet Journal as a Model of “World Literature” of the Mid-1930s USSR Elena Ostrovskaya, Elena Zemskova, Evgeniia Belskaia, Georgii Korotkov 8. Translating China into International Literature: Stalin-Era World Literature Beyond the WestEdward Tyerman 9. World Literature and Ideology: The Case of Socialist RealismSchamma Schahadat 10. Premature Postcolonialists: The Afro-Asian Writers’ Association (1958–1991) and Its Literary Field Rossen Djagalov 11. Can “Worldliness” Be Inscribed into the Literary Text?: Russian Diasporic Writing in the Context of World Literature Maria Rubins ContributorsIndex
£76.49
Academic Studies Press A Voice from The Lost Town of Trochenbrod
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£112.50
Academic Studies Press A Voice from The Lost Town of Trochenbrod
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Academic Studies Press Dialogue and Influence
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£62.39
Academic Studies Press The Making of Barbarians
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£25.95
Academic Studies Press A Room of His Own
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£55.86
