10th Conference on British and American Studies – Crossing Boundaries
This collection of papers explores language, literature, and culture through the overarching notion of Englishness. It provides a snapshot of the multiple vantage points from which these phenomena can be studied, focusing on English-speaking communities.
Convergent Approaches to Mediaeval English Language and Literature
This volume is a conversation between pioneering research and traditional medievalism. These crucial essays offer multiple perspectives on the English Middle Ages, covering linguistics, literature, and translation, proving the dark ages provide foundations for new ideas.
This transdisciplinary volume discusses presence and absence, revealing how diverse areas—from linguistics and literature to film—talk to each other in surprising ways, opening up cultural, cinematic, and literary works to new readings and meanings.
Miyoshi deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702, and his unique approach allows various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, to be revealed, including an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases.
This volume explores translation and censorship, focusing on the Iberian dictatorial regimes of Spain and Portugal. Presenting new case studies, it offers a critical view of censorship from Brazil and China to Victorian England and examines self-censorship.