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Translating Memories of Violent Pasts
This collection brings together work from Memory Studies and Translation Studies to explore the role of interlingual and intercultural translation for unpacking transcultural memory dynamics, focusing on memories of violent pasts across different literary genres. The book explores the potential of a research agenda that links narrower definitions of translation with broader notions of transfer, transmission, and relocation across temporal and cultural borders, investigating the nuanced theoretical and conceptual dimensions at the intersection of memory and translation. The volume explores memories of violent pasts – legacies of war, genocide, dictatorship, and exile across different genres...
Social Media
This anthology brings together cutting-edge research and insightful analysis from experts in linguistics and foreign language education. Applying different methodological approaches to the analysis of social media, researchers from different fields explore how platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are reshaping communication, language learning, and teaching methodologies. From the power of hashtags to the role of influencers, this collection reveals the profound impact of digital interactions on modern linguistics and foreign language education. Essential for educators, researchers, and social media enthusiasts, this book offers a fresh perspective on the evolving landscape of Romance languages (French, Spanish and Portuguese) in the digital age. With contributions from: Eva Martha Eckkrammer, Sandra Steidel, Robert Hesselbach, Miriam Zapf, Pascale Erhart, Elke Höfler, Diana Vesga, Felix Röhricht, Lukas Eibensteiner, Lukas Fiedler, Benjamin Meisnitzer, Anne-Marie Lachmund
Translation and Geography
Translation and Geography investigates how translation has radically shaped the way the West has mapped the world. Groundbreaking in its approach and relevant across a range of disciplines from translation studies and comparative literature to geography and history, this book makes a compelling case for a form of cultural translation that reframes the contributions of language-based translation analysis. Focusing on the different yet intertwined translation processes involved in the development of the Western spatial imaginary, Federico Italiano examines a series of literary works and their translations across languages, media, and epochs, encompassing: poems travel narratives nautical fictions colonial discourse exilic visions. Drawing on case studies and readings ranging from the Latin of the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Latin American poetry, this is key reading for translation theory and comparative/world literature courses.
Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel
Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history, political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary take on how Koestler's novels utilize, and at times transcend, the genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit and reassess them. With the topics of Koestler's novels including terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma, the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as they were at the time of their publication.
A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond
This study investigates the distribution of linguistic and specifically structural diversity in Northeast Asia (NEA), defined as the region north of the Yellow River and east of the Yenisei. In particular, it analyzes what is called the grammar of questions (GQ), i.e., those aspects of any given language that are specialized for asking questions or regularly combine with these. The bulk of the study is a bottom-up description and comparison of GQs in the languages of NEA. The addition of the phrase and beyond to the title of this study serves two purposes. First, languages such as Turkish and Chuvash are included, despite the fact that they are spoken outside of NEA, since they have ties to ...
Meaning-Making and Political Campaign Advertising
Although recent linguistic and media-studies' research has increasingly dealt with forms of imagery beyond language, such as in audiovisual formats, only little attention has been paid to the specific media character of audiovisual images. This raises a theoretical as well as methodological problem: How can processes of figurative meaning making in audiovisual media be adequately conceptualized and described? The book intends to bridge this research gap with an analysis of campaign commercials, a hitherto largely underexplored object of study in metaphor and metonymy research. To achieve this goal, a transdisciplinary film-analytical and cognitive-linguistic account of audiovisual figurativi...
Literaturwissenschaft
Eine Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft, die allen Ansprüchen der BA/MA-Studiengänge entspricht. Geballtes Basiswissen, kompakt und dennoch leicht verständlich: - didaktisch aufgebaut - modular strukturiert - Literaturwissenschaft und Literaturgeschichte in einem Band utb basics Lehrbücher mit einem klaren Konzept: - Merksätze und Definitionen erleichtern das Behalten des Stoffes - Testfragen fördern das Verständnis - ideal für die Prüfungsvorbereitung
La narración entre lo fantástico y la posmodernidad
Los dos grandes autores argentinos Adolfo Bioy Casares y Julio Cortázar no solo nacieron en el mismo año, 1914, sino que también estuvieron estrechamente relacionados con Jorge Luis Borges. Estos puntos en común ya podrían llevar a una investigación comparativa de sus obras, pero los dos también comparten elementos propiamente literarios que merecen ser investigados: las obras de ambos autores muestran técnicas narrativas fantásticas y procedimientos narrativos experimentales que se pueden identificar como técnicas posmodernas avant la lettre. La pregunta acerca de los elementos posmodernos que unen a Bioy y a Cortázar puede plantearse de varias formas: permite investigar una posi...
Inszenierungen zeitgenössischer Propaganda
Hans Bausch Mediapreis 2024 "Don't drink and drive!", "Respect Covid regulations!", or "Don't get the vaccine!": In the public spheres of democratic societies, there are many insistent audiovisual messages that appeal to the public in the name of the "common good". This monograph examines such social advertisements against a multi-disciplinary field of theoretical reference in order to develop a discourse-analytical approach. By analyzing films serving "mundane" purposes as cinematic forms of meaning-making, it opens up audiovisual discourse formations to aesthetic and political critique. This film studies perspective sheds new light on media practices where propaganda, advertising, and publ...
Formen und Funktionen auktorialer Epitexte im literarischen Feld der Gegenwart
Wie erweitern und entwickeln sich im deutschsprachigen Raum seit der Jahrtausendwende Formen und Funktionen auktorialer Epitexte in einem professionalisierten literarischen Feld mit veränderten medialen Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten hinsichtlich der Inszenierung und Rolle von Autor*innenschaft sowie der Korrelation von Autor*in und Werk? Dieser Frage widmen sich die im Band versammelten Beiträge mit Blick auf das dynamische Verhältnis zwischen (Gesamt-)Werk, Autor:innenschaft und Paratext, wie es sich insbesondere in Epitexten artikuliert. Dabei werden Bedeutung und Facetten des Epitextualitätsbegriffs im Allgemeinen sowie entlang der spezifischen Erscheinungsformen fingierter, performativer, ritualisierter und digitaler Epitexte beleuchtet. Ziel des Bandes ist es, das vielseitige Potenzial von Epitexten in ihrer Heterogenität zu erfassen, auf unterschiedliche Fragestellungen hin zu fokussieren und ihre Bedeutung für literaturwissenschaftliche Forschung herauszuarbeiten.
