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Series: The New Critical Idiom
In a time when millions travel around the planet every day; some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile, translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
This book visits the ‘Thing’ in its various manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the monster is its excess and its unrepresentable nature. Tied primarily to the artistic modes of the fantastic, science-fiction, gothic, and...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This book addresses the interplay between nationalism and cultural memory in a range of texts both for and about young people. The volume is concerned with how cultural memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and (re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant national narratives,...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Translation Studies
This volume explores the relationship between literature and translation from three perspectives: the creative dimensions of the translation process; the way texts circulate between languages; and the way texts are received in translation by new audiences. The distinctiveness of the volume lies in...
To Be Published October 2nd 2013 by Routledge
This collection analyses the future of ‘trauma theory’, a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections. Part one, History and Culture, begins by...
To Be Published October 8th 2013 by Routledge
Series: New Accents
In the late 1970s a new academic discipline was born: Translation Studies. We could not read literature in translation, it was argued, without asking ourselves if linguistic and cultural phenomena really were 'translatable' and exploring in some depth the concept of 'equivalence'. When Susan...
To Be Published October 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
This book explores postcolonial literatures from a translational perspective and argues that postcolonial studies should become a discourse of and on translation in order to be responsive to the complexity of the textuality, and even the literariness, of postcolonial texts. In a world where bi- and...
To Be Published October 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Picturebook research has undergone considerable change during the last decade. This volume brings together leading international researchers in a variety of disciplines, including literacy studies, linguistics, and art history, to discuss the aesthetic and cognitive challenges of modern...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today. In contemporary society, any behavior that seems distinctly difficult or unusually impressive is classified as heroic: everyone from firefighters to foster fathers to freedom fighters are our heroes. But what motivates these people to act...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Including the Chicano southwest of California, Texas, Arizona, Colarado, New Mexico, and Nevada, together with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and its Manhattan offshoot, Spanish Harlem, the Cuban America of Florida, as well as the many smaller communities whose origins lie in Central and South...
To Be Published October 21st 2013 by Routledge
