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Inspired by Bakhtin
Dialogic Methods in the Humanities
Inbunden, 2018
1691 kr
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In seven essays, this book offers a tour de force through those seven disciplines in the humanities that lately underwent a fundamental transformation. In order to apply “exact” scientific methods, these disciplines turned away from their very subjects— the understanding of the relationship or a …
Travels from Dostoevsky’s Siberia
Encounters with Polish Literary Exiles
Inbunden, 2019
1741 kr
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Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I. …
Travels from Dostoevsky’s Siberia
Encounters with Polish Literary Exiles
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I. …
Fate, Nature, and Literary Form
The Politics of the Tragic in Japanese Literature
Av Kinya Nishi
Inbunden, 2020
1302 kr
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This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the “tragic” combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by contemporary critical discourse (especially the works by such thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson and Raymond Williams), the author challenges …
Dostoevsky as a Translator of Balzac
Av Julia Titus
Inbunden, 2022
1274 kr
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The focus of this study in comparative criticism is close analysis of Dostoevsky’s first literary publication—his 1844 translation of the first edition of Balzac’s Eugе́nie Grandet (1834)—and the stylistic choices that he made as a young writer while working on Balzac’s novel. Through the prism of …
Reading Novels Translingually
Twenty-First-Century Case Studies
Av Julie Hansen
Inbunden, 2024
1378 kr
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This book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early …
Heterotopic World Fiction
Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje
Av Lesley Higgins, Marie-Christine Leps
Inbunden, 2022
1260 kr
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After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of …
Visions of the Future
Malthusian Thought Experiments in Russian Literature (1840–1960)
Inbunden, 2023
1313 kr
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This book is inspired by the author’s work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: “What If—On the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments.” Having contributed to great discoveries, …
World Literature in the Soviet Union
Av Galin Tihanov, Anne Lounsbery m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1765 kr
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This 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 …
Contemporary Translation in Transition
Poems, Theories, Conversations
Av Maria Khotimsky, Friederike Reents m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1240 kr
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This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations into German and English. Poetry translation, thriving and obstinately open-ended, is not so much a defined process as a practice of ongoing transit across …
