Author: Eva Parisinou,Lorna Hardwick
Publisher: Duckbacks
ISBN: N.A
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 160
View: 9274
Examines the literary and cultural environment underlying various kinds of translations
Author: Eva Parisinou,Lorna Hardwick
Publisher: Duckbacks
ISBN: N.A
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 160
View: 9274
Examines the literary and cultural environment underlying various kinds of translationsIntercultural Mediation in Literature, Linguistics and the Arts
Author: Ciara
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838263529
Category: Social Science
Page: 260
View: 8644
With the rapidly developing globalization of various sectors of modern life, individuals, organizations, and nations are becoming increasingly aware of the ways in which cultural diversity may not only be a potential cause of conflict but also a source of growth, creativity, and inspiration. If, traditionally, intercultural mediation has been understood as a conflict-solving strategy or as a means to facilitate communication between individuals from different cultural backgrounds, Bridging Culture aims at providing a framework and a set of theoretical reflections towards a larger vision of the field, presenting mediation as a particular form of critical intervention within the different domains of the humanities. The contributions in the present volume take intercultural mediation to be a multifaceted, interdisciplinary phenomenon, impacting upon the fields of linguistics and literature as well as translation and cultural studies, where themes such as interculturality, multilingualism, and cultural transfer are continual and urgent features of contemporary discourse and debate.The Epic Greek Cycle Retold in Ten Plays
Author: John Barton
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN: 1783195274
Category: Drama
Page: 420
View: 3449
Who is to Blame? What is the Truth? Could it be Otherwise? When theatre began, two and a half millennia ago in ancient Greece, it drew from a well of even older myths, the Epic Cycle. These myths were Europe’s first account of the tragedy and comedy of the human enterprise. Stories and characters from the beginning of our imagination inspired John Barton to write the great cycle of human life, Tantalus, an epic theatre myth for the modern age. Its subject is the Trojan War, a crusade which became a catastrophe. Helen of Troy – was she really the cause of this ten-year war? Agamemnon’s anguish – did he have to sacrifice his daughter? Clytemnestra – was her murderous revenge justified? A wooden horse – how could it destroy a great city? Heroes humbled, children hurt, mothers and fathers bereaved, entire nations shaken and rebuilt: all pass through this kaleidoscope of human fate. This new edition of Tantalus is the culmination of a lifetime’s work and fully encompasses John Barton’s visions and revisions.
Author: N.A
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: Greece
Page: N.A
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Vols. 1-8, 1880-87, plates published separately and numbered I-LXXXIII.
Author: N.A
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: 9780835246477
Category: Literature
Page: N.A
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A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö
Author: Alaric Hall
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004180117
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 333
View: 4297
The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture.how Plato and Socrates still captivate the modern mind
Author: Melissa S. Lane
Publisher: Duckbacks
ISBN: N.A
Category: History
Page: 165
View: 4769
Modern responses to the trials of Socrates and the ironies of Socratic inquiry
Author: David Konstan
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9780715629048
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 192
View: 3755
"Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in this study are the appeal to pity in courts of law and the connection between pity and desert; the relation between pity and love or intimacy; self-pity; the role of pity in war and its relation to human rights and human dignity; divine pity from paganism to Christianity; and why pity was considered an emotion. This book will lead readers to ponder how the Greeks and Romans were both like and unlike us in this fundamental area of cultural sensibility.
Author: N.A
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: Classical literature
Page: N.A
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Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture
Author: Walter J. Ong
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080146630X
Category: Computers
Page: 352
View: 9377
In Interfaces of the World, Walter J. Ong explores the effects on consciousness of the word as it moves through oral to written to print and electronic culture.Greek Tragedy in the Modern World
Author: Rush Rehm
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9780715629161
Category: Drama
Page: 160
View: 431
Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected chapters, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape the theatre of the future. Part analysis, part polemic, this book engages the aesthetic, political and ethical challenges of Greek tragedy as a means of confronting what tomorrow's theatre can do.
Author: Vassilis Lambropoulos
Publisher: Duckbacks
ISBN: 9780715635582
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 158
View: 8447
Traces the rise of the tragic idea from early Romanticism to late Modernism.Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece,China and Today
Author: G.E.R. Lloyd
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9780715633861
Category: History
Page: 160
View: 9974
How were the aims of philosophy and the responsibilities of philosophers conceived in ancient Greece and China? How were the learned elite recruited and controlled; how were their speculations and advice influenced by the different types of audiences they faced and the institutions in which they worked? How was a yearning for invulnerability reconciled with a sense of human frailty? In each chapter of this fascinating analysis ancient Greek and Chinese ideas and practices are used as a basis for critical reflections on the predicaments we continue to face today, with a particular focus on the key Greek ideas of the equal participation of all citizens in the political process, and on the key Chinese one of a dedication to the ideal of the welfare of all under heavenstudies in rhetorical continuity from the Romans to the modern era
Author: Nancy Shumate
Publisher: Duckbacks
ISBN: 9780715635513
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 191
View: 5182
Offers four readings of Latin literary texts to show that the templates for these 'modern' discourses were forged in their essentials by the early Roman imperial period.Embracing Multitudes of Meaning
Author: Marinela Burada,Oana Tatu,Raluca Sinu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443872911
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 475
View: 8649
The present volume includes a selection of twenty-nine papers by academics, and senior and junior researchers who came together within the framework of the 11th Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three sections, the contributions included here display a wide array of topics and methodologies illustrating a variety of scholarly pursuits and approaches. These, in their turn, reflect the issues which constitute the complex nature of language and culture, and their mutual relationship. The authors’ interests encompass aspects related to the structural and rhetorical organization of languages approached both individually and cross-linguistically; first and second language acquisition; issues of translation and rendering considered from linguistic and cultural perspectives; and the cultural construction of meaning and identity as reflected in literature and art.A Casebook
Author: William Kerwin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815324782
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 256
View: 8416
First published in 1997Roman
Author: Kamel Daoud
Publisher: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
ISBN: 3462315412
Category: Fiction
Page: 208
View: 4789
Dieser Roman gibt dem namenlosen Toten aus »Der Fremde« von Camus ein Gesicht Ein Roman aus Algerien, der um die Welt geht: in Frankreich ein Riesenbestseller, in den USA und England als literarische Sensation gefeiert, jetzt in deutscher Übersetzung. Die Geschichte des namenlosen Arabers aus Camus’ weltberühmtem Roman »Der Fremde« – erzählt von dessen Bruder. Der alte Mann, der Nacht für Nacht in einer Bar in Oran seine Geschichte erzählt, ist der Bruder jenes Arabers, der 1942 von einem gewissen Meursault am Strand von Algier erschossen wurde – in einem der berühmtesten Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts. 70 Jahre später, mit all dem Ärger, der Angst und Frustration eines Lebens im Schatten dieses Todes, gibt der alte Mann seinem Bruder seinen Namen zurück. Der Araber aus Camus’ Roman »Der Fremde« bekommt so eine Identität und eine Geschichte. Eine Geschichte, die untrennbar mit der Algeriens verknüpft ist und doch gleichzeitig so berührend und persönlich, dass man das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen kann. Ein großer Roman darüber, wie die Vergangenheit unsere Gegenwart prägt, und über die ungebrochene Kraft der Literatur, eine tiefere Erkenntnis, eine verborgene Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen. Das Buch gilt jetzt schon als Klassiker – gleichwertig zu Camus’ Roman: »Ein großartiger Roman. In Zukunft wird man ›Der Fremde‹ und ›Der Fall Meursault – eine Gegendarstellung‹ nebeneinander lesen.« Le monde des livres