| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Cross/cultures ; 106 |
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ASNEL papers ; 13 |
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Cross/cultures ; 106
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ASNEL papers ; 13.
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| Contents |
Table of Contents; An Introduction; TRANSLATABILITY AND UNTRANSLATABILITY OF CULTURES; Translation, Adaptation, and Intertexuality in African Drama; Open Boundaries; 'Nordism'; Translation of Romanian Culture in Kenneth Radu's Fiction; "There are no jokes in paradise"; Postcolonial Literatures on a Global Market; TRAVEL AND TRANSLATION IN THE CONTACT ZONE; Transporting Ceylon; Transcribing Colonial Australia; TRANSLATION OF THE TRANSCULTURAL SELF; Swarming With Ghosts and Turehus; Of Serpents and Swastikas; Scottish Territories and Canadian Identity |
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"But who is that on the other side of you?"Deconstructing the Canadian Mosaic; Functional Equivalence Revisited; The History and Future of Bilingual Education; Transperipheral Translations?; Translation Shifts in African Women's Writing; Translation, Multilingualism, and Linguistic Hybridity; Notes on Contributors |
| Summary |
Perhaps more than in any other period in modern history, our globalized present is characterized by a constant interaction of, and exposure to, different peoples, regions, ways of life, traditions, languages, and cultures. Cross-boundary communication today comes in various shapes: as mutual exchange, open dialogue, enforced process, misunderstanding, or even violent conflict. In this situation, 'translation' has become an inevitable requirement in order to ease the flow of disinterested and unbiased cultural communication. The contributors to this collection approach the subject of the 'trans |
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English Literature |
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Commonwealth Literature (English) |
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Postcolonialism |
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Literary Criticism |
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Political Science |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Intercultural communication -- Congresses
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Translating and interpreting -- Congresses
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Intercultural communication
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Literature
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Translating and interpreting
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gross, Konrad
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| ISBN |
9789042029286 |
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9042029285 |
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1282505149 |
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9781282505148 |
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9786612505140 |
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6612505141 |
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1441625453 |
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9781441625458 |
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