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"Alas, alas. House, oh house!": The Collapse of the Cologne City Archive (2014)
Journal Article
Osborne, D. (2014). "Alas, alas. House, oh house!": The Collapse of the Cologne City Archive. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 1(3), 395-416. https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs.1.3.395_1

When the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (known as Cologne’s City Archive) collapsed in 2009, a municipal institution became visible in quite unintended ways. The incident and its consequences tell us about the structure, constitution and r... Read More about "Alas, alas. House, oh house!": The Collapse of the Cologne City Archive.

Wolfgang Tillmans' Still Islands: Photographic Aesthetics off the Margin. (2014)
Journal Article
Hernández Adrián, F. (2014). Wolfgang Tillmans' Still Islands: Photographic Aesthetics off the Margin. Third Text, 28 (4-5), 377-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2014.939505

This article analyses a set of photographic works on island and littoral locations by German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. Focusing initially on one of Tillmans' signature images, Untitled (La Gomera), 1997, the article draws attention to this piec... Read More about Wolfgang Tillmans' Still Islands: Photographic Aesthetics off the Margin..

Strategies of Translating Sexualities as Part of the Secularization of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia (2014)
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Tyulenev, S. (2014). Strategies of Translating Sexualities as Part of the Secularization of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia. Comparative Literature Studies, 51(2), 253-276. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.51.2.0253

This article considers one of the understudied areas of Russian translation history—the role translation played in introducing works of verbal art with a distinct sexual component as part of the program of westernization of eighteenth- and early nine... Read More about Strategies of Translating Sexualities as Part of the Secularization of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia.

The impact of cultural background knowledge in the processing of metaphorical expressions: An empirical study of English-Chinese sight translation (2014)
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Zheng, B., & Xiang, X. (2014). The impact of cultural background knowledge in the processing of metaphorical expressions: An empirical study of English-Chinese sight translation. Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association, 9(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.9.1.01zhe

This study aims to explore the role and possible impact of cultural background knowledge (CBK) on performance in sight translation, specifically the translation of metaphorical expressions (MEs). A between-subjects experiment was designed for 68 inte... Read More about The impact of cultural background knowledge in the processing of metaphorical expressions: An empirical study of English-Chinese sight translation.

Liquid visuality: Douglas Sirk's La Habanera and insular Atlantic studies. (2014)
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Hernández Adrián, F. (2014). Liquid visuality: Douglas Sirk's La Habanera and insular Atlantic studies. Journal of Romance Studies, 14(2), 62-77. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.14.2.62

In Douglas Sirk's last UFA studios film, La Habanera (1937), the island of Tenerife poses as Puerto Rico, Caribbean culture translates as vague Hispanic pastiche, and Nazi propaganda speaks through Zarah Leander's trance performances in the course of... Read More about Liquid visuality: Douglas Sirk's La Habanera and insular Atlantic studies..

Nikolay Myaskovsky and the ‘regimentation’ of Soviet composition : a reassessment (2014)
Journal Article
Zuk, P. (2014). Nikolay Myaskovsky and the ‘regimentation’ of Soviet composition : a reassessment. The Journal of Musicology, 31(3), 354-393. https://doi.org/10.1525/jm.2014.31.3.354

Western studies of musical life in the USSR have typically placed great emphasis on the constraints to which composers were subject and often appear to have accepted as axiomatic the notion that the styles of Soviet composition of the Stalinist era w... Read More about Nikolay Myaskovsky and the ‘regimentation’ of Soviet composition : a reassessment.

The Mental Test as a Boundary Object in Early-20th-Century Russian Child Science (2014)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2014). The Mental Test as a Boundary Object in Early-20th-Century Russian Child Science. History of the Human Sciences, 27(4), 22-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695114527598

This article charts the history of mental testing in the context of the rise and fall of Russian child science between the 1890s and the 1930s. Tracing the genealogy of testing in scientific experimentation, scholastic assessment, medical diagnostics... Read More about The Mental Test as a Boundary Object in Early-20th-Century Russian Child Science.

Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2014). Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction. Modern and Contemporary France, 22(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2013.867151

This article analyses literary mediations of francophone Jewish attitudes towards Israel, and particularly towards the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Its primary corpus comprises two female-authored novels published during the Second Intifada: Olivia... Read More about Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction.

Understanding Care Leavers in Russia: Young People's Experiences of Institutionalisation. (2014)
Journal Article
Stepanova, E., & Hackett, S. (2014). Understanding Care Leavers in Russia: Young People's Experiences of Institutionalisation. Australian Social Work, 67(1), 118-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2013.868011

Care leavers in Russia represent one of the most disadvantaged groups in society. However, they have rarely been the focus of welfare policy debate and they receive little or no support in their independent living. This paper presents the findings of... Read More about Understanding Care Leavers in Russia: Young People's Experiences of Institutionalisation..

Abjection, Marriage, and the Burrowing Worm: The Body as Bounded System in the Dança General de la Muerte (2014)
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Beresford, A. M. (2014). Abjection, Marriage, and the Burrowing Worm: The Body as Bounded System in the Dança General de la Muerte. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 91(8), 965-980. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2014.62

This article explores the depiction of the burrowing gusano in the Dança general de la Muerte, arguing that Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection offers a previously untested hermeneutic for interpretation. It argues that the action of the worm in dev... Read More about Abjection, Marriage, and the Burrowing Worm: The Body as Bounded System in the Dança General de la Muerte.

Humanity and the Life of Language: the "Two Cultures" to Montaigne's "De l’Institution des enfans" (2014)
Journal Article
McKenzie, W. (2014). Humanity and the Life of Language: the "Two Cultures" to Montaigne's "De l’Institution des enfans". Synergies Royaume Uni et Irlande, 7, 15-30

This article analyses the often aggressive discussion between C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis about the « Two Cultures » – what might otherwise be termed the « war of literature and science » – which took place in the 1950s and 1960s. It suggests that be... Read More about Humanity and the Life of Language: the "Two Cultures" to Montaigne's "De l’Institution des enfans".

Translation as a Social Fact (2014)
Journal Article
Tyulenev, S. (2014). Translation as a Social Fact. Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association, 9(2), 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.9.2.01tyu

This article proposes a reading of classical works of Emile Durkheim, one of the founding fathers of sociology, in light of their applicability to translation research. It is argued that, since translation is a social phenomenon, Durkheimian sociolog... Read More about Translation as a Social Fact.

The role of consultation sources revisited: an empirical study of English–Chinese translation (2014)
Journal Article
Zheng, B. (2014). The role of consultation sources revisited: an empirical study of English–Chinese translation. Perspectives, 22(1), 113-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.2012.746380

This paper contributes to empirical research into expertise in translation by investigating how translators approach source texts and how they use consultation sources, specifically dictionaries, to inform their translation choices. Subjects particip... Read More about The role of consultation sources revisited: an empirical study of English–Chinese translation.

“Diese heiklen Formen” : destruction and desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan (2014)
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Osborne, D. (2014). “Diese heiklen Formen” : destruction and desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 89(1), 20-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2014.875429

This article considers Durs Grünbein's use of porcelain in his 2005 collection, Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt as a symbol for both Dresden's Baroque splendor and its destruction in the firestorm of February 1945. Moving between beautiful... Read More about “Diese heiklen Formen” : destruction and desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan.

Monumento inacabado: la Estoria de España de Alfonso VII a Fernando III (2014)
Journal Article
Hijano, M. (2014). Monumento inacabado: la Estoria de España de Alfonso VII a Fernando III. Cahiers d'études hispaniques médiévales, 37(1), 13-44. https://doi.org/10.3917/cehm.037.0011

Es bien sabido que Alfonso X mandó componer dos versiones, Primitiva (c. 1270-1271) y Crítica (c. 1282-1284), de la Estoria de España y que ambas quedaron inconclusas a su muerte. Centrandome en la sección final de la Estoria (el relato dedicado a lo... Read More about Monumento inacabado: la Estoria de España de Alfonso VII a Fernando III.