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Gadda and Beckett: Storytelling, Subjectivity and Fracture (2014)
Book
Wehling-Giorgi, K. (2014). Gadda and Beckett: Storytelling, Subjectivity and Fracture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351191470

While the writing of Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is renowned for its linguistic and narrative proliferation, the best-known works of Samuel Beckett (1906-89) are minimalist, with a clear fondness for subtraction and abstraction. Despite these face... Read More about Gadda and Beckett: Storytelling, Subjectivity and Fracture.

Strategies of Translating Sexualities as Part of the Secularization of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia (2014)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

China under Western Gaze: Representing China in the British Television Documentaries, 1980-2000 (2014)
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Cao, Q. (2014). China under Western Gaze: Representing China in the British Television Documentaries, 1980-2000. World Scientific Publishing

This book presents a critical analysis of the images of China portrayed in British television documentaries between 1980 and 2000. The examination is contextualized within the profound transformations of the post-reform China and global political str... Read More about China under Western Gaze: Representing China in the British Television Documentaries, 1980-2000.

‘Middle Arabic’? Morpho-syntactic features of clashing grammars in a thirteenth-century Arabian text (2014)
Book Chapter
Bellem, A., & Smith, G. R. (2014). ‘Middle Arabic’? Morpho-syntactic features of clashing grammars in a thirteenth-century Arabian text. In O. Elmaz, & J. Watson (Eds.), Languages of Southern Arabia : papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 27 July 2013 (9-18). Archaeopress

The special session in 2013, Languages of Southern Arabia, was the fifth in the Seminar for Arabian Studies special session series. This was the first special session with an explicit linguistic focus to be held at the Seminar, and aimed to bring tog... Read More about ‘Middle Arabic’? Morpho-syntactic features of clashing grammars in a thirteenth-century Arabian text.

The ‘serial’ works of A.J. Potter. (2014)
Book Chapter
Zuk, P. (2014). The ‘serial’ works of A.J. Potter. In G. Cox, & J. Horton (Eds.), Irish Musical Analysis (202-222). Four Courts Press

Liquid visuality: Douglas Sirk's La Habanera and insular Atlantic studies. (2014)
Journal Article
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..

Incommensurable distance : Georgian cinema as a (trans)national cinema (2014)
Book Chapter
Radunović, D. (2014). Incommensurable distance : Georgian cinema as a (trans)national cinema. In S. Bahun, & J. Haynes (Eds.), Cinema, state socialism and society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989 : re-visions (49-73). Routledge

The aim of this chapter is to trace the variegating strategies of identity formation in Georgian cinema, and to interrogate the manifestations of minority identity in the markedly transnational context of Soviet cinema. The particularities of nationa... Read More about Incommensurable distance : Georgian cinema as a (trans)national cinema.

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.

Translation and Society. (2014)
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Tyulenev, S. (2014). Translation and Society. Routledge

This essential new textbook guides readers through the social aspects and sociologically informed approaches to the study of translation. Sergey Tyulenev surveys implicitly and explicitly sociological approaches to the study of translation, drawing o... Read More about Translation and Society..

Darwin in German Literary Culture 1890-1914 (2014)
Book Chapter
Saul, N. (2014). Darwin in German Literary Culture 1890-1914. In T. F. Glick, & E. Shaffer (Eds.), The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe (46-77). Bloomsbury

The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women's Writing in French (2014)
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Damlé, A. (2014). The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women's Writing in French. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748668212.001.0001

Following a long tradition of objectification, twentieth-century French feminism has often sought to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal logos and to inscribe its rhythms in writing. But how has the promotion of ‘women’s writing... Read More about The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women's Writing in French.

Towards the World-Zombie: The Monstrous, the 'Human' and the Dominican-Haitian Frontier in Malas Hierbas and 'Monstro' (2014)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2014). Towards the World-Zombie: The Monstrous, the 'Human' and the Dominican-Haitian Frontier in Malas Hierbas and 'Monstro'. In S. Fouz-Hernández, & L. Cairns (Eds.), Re-thinking Identities: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millenium (189-212). Peter Lang

This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, there is a su... Read More about Towards the World-Zombie: The Monstrous, the 'Human' and the Dominican-Haitian Frontier in Malas Hierbas and 'Monstro'.

Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium (2014)
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Cairns, L., & Fouz Hernández, S. (Eds.). (2014). Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, there is a su... Read More about Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium.