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Early Modern Translation and the Digital Humanities
Get PDFThis open-access volume explores how digital resources and methods can be usefully employed for research on early modern translation. The volume focuses mainly on digital resources, and features a number of chapters on translation-specific resources written by members of the teams leading the projects. The resources presented here encompass translations into and/or out of Greek, Latin, the European vernaculars, and Jewish languages (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Judeo-Italian) and different corpora including plays, encyclopedias, and ‘radical’ texts. While the use of digital methods to analyse early modern translations is still in its early stages, the volume also considers how methods such as data visualisation could shed new light on translation phenomena
Envisioning a promising Africa from diverse perspectives
Get PDFThis scholarly book delves into the critical developmental challenges Africa faces in striving to achieve the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book disseminates novel inquiry on interconnected themes spanning gender equity, social transformation and health development. Aligned with Agenda 2063’s seven aspirations, the book highlights Africa’s shared goals for prosperity, unity, free citizenship and empowerment, particularly for women and youth. Chapters critically examine barriers to achieving these aspirations, offering local, regional and global perspectives on systemic challenges. The first theme, ‘social cohesion and transformation’, examines issues like institutional reform in Nigeria’s education sector and the marginalisation of African migrants. The second theme, ‘gender injustice in education and science’, explores topics such as gender gaps in doctoral programmes, resilience among black academics, and cultural stereotyping in teacher education. The final theme, ‘health and development’, focuses on resilience, nutrition and the gendered impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). With contributions from leading African scholars, this book provides a critical analysis of systemic obstacles and proposes pathways for meaningful progress. Envisioning a promising Africa from diverse perspectives is essential for academics and researchers and is a call to action to confront the barriers impeding Africa’s sustainable development goals
Sendas del hispanismo: márgenes, centros y convergencia
Get PDFIt integrates the studies that, from multiple perspectives and disciplines, addressed diverse and current issues of language, literature, history and Hispanic cultures during the XXI Congress of the International Association of Hispanists held in Neuchâtel (Switzerland). In this way, the already secular Swiss Hispanism managed to attract and hold for the first time in its country one of the main and most important forums for interdisciplinary and plural academic dialogue, which brings together the world's Hispanists every three years. At this meeting, the character of the IAI as a traditional open and inclusive forum where all those who make the Hispanic world, so multifaceted and diverse, their object of study or interest, are welcomed and come together, was once again made clear
Plays
Get PDFThis Edition of Theodore Dreiser’s Plays reveals one of the foremost chroniclers of American modernity at his most “modernist” and formally experimental, while deepening and complicating our understanding of the realism for which he is renowned. It also helps to document the “Little Theater” movement of the nineteen-teens.
From 1913 to 1920, Dreiser wrote a series of plays, in forms ranging from the penetrating realism for which his novels were already famous, to highly “experimental” modernism, to symbolist and expressionist dramas that were among the first of their kind in America. His one-act plays are often filled with mysticism, and characters often rely on “supernatural” and spiritual forces to guide their decisions and behaviors. Such theatre troupes as the Washington Square Players and the Provincetown Players staged Dreiser’s probingly realistic dramas, and for this they met with much critical controversy. His four-act tragedy, The Hand of the Potter, was regarded as shockingly lurid by some; for others it was a trail-blazing attempt to understand “deviancy” and the effects of sexual violence. Even though Dreiser is not particularly well known for his plays, his plays and expressionist vision had an enormous impact on playwrights who followed after him, including Thornton Wilder.
For this volume in the Dreiser Edition, Keith Newlin and Frederick Rusch’s The Collected Plays of Theodore Dreiser (2000) has been revised and expanded. Newlin, Rusch and Davies present authoritative texts of the plays, supported by a full textual commentary and record of emendations. Their Introduction and Appendices delineate the compositional, artistic, personal, and historical contexts of the plays, drawing on extensive archival research. Further historical documentation, and many additional illustrations, provide an insight into the aesthetic and literary context of the plays, while a new appendix lists contemporary reviews
Chapter L’Ephemeris di Ausonio e l’autobiografia del quotidiano: riflessioni a partire da un’analisi del carme 1
No full textAfterimages of Apartheid
Get PDFAfterimages of Apartheid shows how photographs of the past can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects of apartheid in contemporary South Africa. Through close readings of significant images made during and after apartheid, the book shows how photography works as a means of documentation, commemoration, and resistance. Written by one of South Africa’s leading scholars of visual history, the book considers the ways in which photographs can be used to contest impunity for state violence. Afterimages includes chapters on the Sharpeville and Marikana massacres, on the re-opening of cases of human rights violations that remain unresolved in the aftermath of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and on contemporary protests against the post-apartheid state. The book makes a powerful case for the role of photographs in drawing the viewer into the past time they represent, issuing a call to the living to remember, respond, and react. This vivid account of the photography of apartheid will be of interest to students and researchers across the fields of South African history, visual studies, memory studies, art history, photography studies and transitional justice
The Japanese Shakespeare
No full textOffering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi’s Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi’s place as ""the Japanese Shakespeare.""
Shakespeare translation is one of the achievements of modern Japanese culture, and no one is more associated with that achievement than the writer and scholar Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859–1935). This book looks at how Tsubouchi received Shakespeare in the context of his native literature and his strategies for bridging the gaps between Shakespeare’s rhetoric and his developing language. Offering a significant contribution to the field of global Shakespeare and literary translation, Gallimore explores dominant stylistic features of the early twentieth-century Shakespeare translations of Tsubouchi and analyses the translations within larger linguistic, historical, and cultural traditions in local Japanese, universal Chinese, and spiritual Western elements.
This book will appeal to any student, researcher, or scholar of literary translation, particularly those interested in the complexities of Shakespeare in translation and Japanese language, culture, and society
Repensar y subvertir el informe social. Perspectivas y claves contemporáneas para el Trabajo Social
No full textThe Psychology Of Economic Inequality
Get PDFThis open access book interrogates psychology’s contributions to our understanding of economic inequality. In the UK, the US and in many other countries, a high level of economic inequality is now one of the major problems facing society, but it seems the political will to restore greater equality is slight. The purpose of this proposed book is, therefore, to develop a psychological understanding of how economic inequality is tolerated and justified. Do we, as citizens, understand how unequal our society has become? Are our beliefs in merit, desert, and individual autonomy standing in the way of dealing with the problem of high inequality? Is a conspiracy of the rich and powerful to blame, or have we simply accepted a distorted form of economic theory? Finally, what – if anything - can be done? Including relevant insights from epidemiologists, economists, journalists, and others, this book provides an example to students and others of how psychology has relevance to some of the most pressing issues of our time. The UK is the central focus throughout, followed closely by the US and other high-income nations. All of the book’s conclusions however should be of relevance for all countries and their citizens as divides between the economically better- and worse-off remain or worsen, with damaging effects for individuals and their communities
Zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik
No full textThe ‘Göttingen Seven’ – professors who opposed the abolition of the constitution by the King of Hanover in 1837 and were subsequently dismissed – set a milestone in the history of the university and the constitution. They are commemorated to this day in speeches, lectures and monuments. However, the events of 1837 cannot be taken up so easily in the 21st century. What happened then, what has changed since then and what we can learn from it today will be considered here