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Reading and Writing through Auden

Speech, Voice and Parable

By: Dennis Lewis

£77.99

This book proposes a creative writing discipline founded on self-mentorship. Through close readings of W.H. Auden, imaginary correspondence with the poet, and new poems, it presents a reading and writing practice attuned to the world-making possibilities of poetry.

Recent Trends in Translation Studies

An Anglo-Italian Perspective

Edited By: Sara Laviosa, Giovanni Iamartino, Eileen Mulligan

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This volume offers a snapshot of current perspectives on translation studies within the socio-cultural framework of Anglo-Italian relations. It covers historiography, literary translation, specialized translation, and multimodality through methodologically rigorous case studies.

Responding to Creative Writing

Edited By: Graeme Harper

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Creative writing is a response to the world. This book shows how writers use language, genre, and technique to explore themes and subjects. Discover how to produce inventive results that improve your own creative writing and critical understanding.

Reverberations of Silence

Silenced Texts, Sub-Texts and Authors in Literature, Language and Translation

Edited By: Márta Pellérdi, Gabriella Reuss

£49.99

Silence results from oppression, censorship, and trauma. Its provocative nature demands interpretation. This collection of scholarly essays offers answers by reading silence in literature and linguistics, from Renaissance texts to modern speech.

Rhetorical Criticism in Communication Studies

Workshop for a Dream

By: Georgina Gabor

£58.99

Gabor focuses on seven entries in Carl R. Burgchardt’s Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, to which she adds a complementary effort. She also offers personal narrative about guidance by specific critics such as Edwin Black, Forbes Hill, and Kenneth Burke.

Simplification, Explicitation and Normalization

Corpus-Based Research into English to Italian Translations of Children's Classics

By: Margherita Ippolito

£39.99

This study tests for proposed "universal features" of translation, like simplification and explicitation, in a corpus of Italian children's books. The results show they do not prevail, suggesting cultural and social conditions determine translation choices.

This study tests for proposed “universal features” of translation, like simplification and explicitation, in a corpus of Italian children’s books. The results show they do not prevail, suggesting cultural and social conditions determine translation choices.

Sociolinguistic and Structural Aspects of Cameroon Creole English

By: Aloysius Ngefac

£61.99

Ngefac offers a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, situating the language’s aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and covering such matters as whether the language is a pidgin or creole.

Space and Time in Language and Literature

Edited By: Lovorka Gruić Grmuša, Marija Brala Vukanović

£34.99

For millennia, we have been intrigued by space and time. This book brings together eight essays exploring their expression in language and literature, using diverse linguistic and literary perspectives to reveal how culture shapes our conception of reality.

Style, Wit and Word-Play

Essays in Translation Studies in Memory of David Hawkes

Edited By: Tao Tao Liu, Chan Sin-wai, Laurence Wong

£44.99

In memory of David Hawkes, pre-eminent translator of The Story of the Stone. This collection of essays by international scholars explores his work and the art of translating Chinese literature into English.

Stylistics in Use

Edited By: Guadalupe Nieto Caballero, Pablo Ruano San Segundo

£41.99

Composed of a series of studies about various trends in stylistics, this compendium serves to bring stylistic analyses closer together, thus demonstrating the potential of stylistics as a research area that can benefit from other disciplines.

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges

A Translation Perspective

By: Roxana Ştefania Bîrsanu

£44.99

This study tackles T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from the perspective of translation as intercultural contact. It centres on a comparative study of the poem and its Romanian translations to sketch the most comprehensive contextualisation of Eliot in Romanian culture.

The Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lexicography Collection

Edited By: Cambridge Scholars

£375.00

This collection brings together the practical and theoretical aspects of Lexicography, a newly accepted academic discipline.

The Changing Language Roles and Linguistic Identities of the Kashmiri Speech Community

By: M. Ashraf Bhat

£61.99

This book investigates assertions of community identity in the multilingual context of Kashmir. It demonstrates that changes in language roles, motivated by various factors, may lead to the demise of the Kashmiri linguistic-cultural identity in favour of Urdu.

The Communicative Mind

A Linguistic Exploration of Conceptual Integration and Meaning Construction

By: Line Brandt

£69.99

This multifaceted investigation into linguistic meaning argues for the indispensability of dialogue in cognition. Drawing on linguistics, philosophy, and literary studies, it demonstrates the centrality of subjectivity and turn-taking interaction in natural semantics.

The Dancer and the Dance

Essays in Translation Studies

Edited By: Chan Sin-wai

£44.99

This collection of essays is the product of theory integrated with practice. Thirteen experts unravel the mystery of translation—"the most complex type of event yet produced"—tracing hitherto undiscovered patterns in its vast, mysterious tapestry.

This collection of essays is the product of theory integrated with practice. Thirteen experts unravel the mystery of translation—”the most complex type of event yet produced”—tracing hitherto undiscovered patterns in its vast, mysterious tapestry.

The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity

New Perspectives on Genre Literature

Edited By: Maylis Rospide, Sandrine Sorlin

£41.99

This volume shows that genre literature is not escapist, but a field for ethical reflection. It explores how science fiction and fantasy dramatize encounters with otherness, raising a crucial question: how can human language describe what escapes humanity?

The Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350)

Masterwork of Late Medieval Didactic Literature

By: Albrecht Classen

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This book provides the first English translation of Ulrich Bonerius's The Gemstone, a popular 14th-century collection of fables. Through didactic animal tales in the Aesopian tradition, Bonerius instructs his audience on vices and virtues, warning of human shortcomings.

This book provides the first English translation of Ulrich Bonerius’s The Gemstone, a popular 14th-century collection of fables. Through didactic animal tales in the Aesopian tradition, Bonerius instructs his audience on vices and virtues, warning of human shortcomings.

The Friulian Language

Identity, Migration, Culture

Edited By: Rose Mucignat

£44.99

What is the place of a minor language in a global world? This is the first comprehensive study in English of Friulian, exploring its history, culture, literature from medieval ballads to Pasolini, and the migration of its people.

The Iliad of Homer, Books I-XII (Volume 1)

Edited By: Barry Nurcombe

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Homer’s epic song of the Trojan War. When the Greeks’ greatest warrior, Akhilleús, falls out with King Agamémnōn and withdraws from battle, their fortunes turn. The Trojans are storming the wall to fight close to the ships, and Akhilleus still refuses to join the battle.

The Iliad of Homer, Books XIII-XXIV (Volume 2)

Edited By: Barry Nurcombe

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Enraged by the death of his beloved comrade Pátroklos, Akhilleús returns to battle to slay the Trojan champion Héktōr. After desecrating the corpse, he is confronted by King Príamos. Touched by the old man’s grief, Akhilleús achieves redemption by returning the body for burial.