Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy

Julia Hartley

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 12
• What can Dante tell us about Proust, and what can Proust tell us about Dante? In this book, Hartley follows a process of analogy, reading Dante's Divi... Lees meer

Memory Across Borders

Sara-Louise Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 6
• Historical memory emerges through dialogue between one generation and the next. But what happens to this dialogue if the children speak a different la... Lees meer

Zola and the Art of Television

Kate Griffiths

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 3
• Émile Zola (1840-1902) has become one of the most adapted authors of all time, but while much has been made of his adaptation into cinema and theatre,... Lees meer

The First English Translations of Molière

Suzanne Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 13
• As the most successful comic dramatist at the court of Louis XIV, Molière was certainly known to his London counterparts. During his early acting year... Lees meer

The Diasporic Canon

Marta Arnaldi

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 20
• The Diasporic Canon is the first monograph to be dedicated to the history of a national literary canon in another language and country. By exploring I... Lees meer

Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 19
• When a society emerges from authoritarian rule, and the State no longer claims a monopoly on the truth, writing becomes essential - in representing ri... Lees meer

Prismatic Translation

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 10
• Translation can be seen as producing a text in one language that will count as equivalent to a text in another. It can also be seen as a release of mu... Lees meer

Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 7
• Transgressive by nature, erotic literature engages the reader in a dialogue informed by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disrega... Lees meer

Can Fiction Change the World?

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 29
• Can fiction change the world? Does it in fact do so? From Don Quixote's delusions to Emma Bovary's romantic daydreams, fiction has often portrayed its... Lees meer

The Foreign Connection

Jamie McKendrick

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 17
• The word 'foreign' has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root - foris : a door - is close to the spirit of these writings which explore open... Lees meer

Memory Across Borders

Sara-Louise Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 6
• Historical memory emerges through dialogue between one generation and the next. But what happens to this dialogue if the children speak a different la... Lees meer

The Foreign Connection

Jamie McKendrick

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 17
• The word 'foreign' has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root - foris : a door - is close to the spirit of these writings which explore open... Lees meer

The Translingual Verse

Alice Loda

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 21
• In this innovative study, Alice Loda explores migration and translingualism in contemporary poetry, focusing on the work of three migrant poets in Ita... Lees meer

After Clarice

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 14
• Forty years after her death, Clarice Lispector's startling oeuvre continues to fascinate readers and scholars. Internationally acclaimed writers, from... Lees meer

Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 7
• Transgressive by nature, erotic literature engages the reader in a dialogue informed by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disrega... Lees meer

Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy

Julia Caterina Hartley

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 12
• What can Dante tell us about Proust, and what can Proust tell us about Dante? In this book, Hartley follows a process of analogy, reading Dante's Divi... Lees meer

Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy

Lucy Rayfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 18
• There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primarily, as a tool for teaching Lati... Lees meer

Adapting the Canon

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 1
• Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation studies, charting the passage of c... Lees meer

Dwelling on Grief

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 22
• How and why do we write about mourning? How does narrative assist us when we dwell on, in, and with grief? What forms of community and even consolatio... Lees meer

Uruguayan Theatre in Translation

Sophie Stevens

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 15
• Uruguayan theatre is receiving increased attention in the UK and, having contributed new translations and scholarship to this field, Sophie Stevens he... Lees meer

André Chénier

David McCallam

• Hardcover | Engels, Frans | Transcript | nr. 24
• Widely regarded as the greatest French poet of the eighteenth century, André Chénier (1762-1794) wrote some of his most scintillating, original verse ... Lees meer

Translating Petrarch's Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 8
• Petrarch is arguably the most influential poet in Western culture. Throughout the centuries, other poets have imitated him or drawn inspiration from w... Lees meer

Hamlet Translations

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 16
• This interdisciplinary collection discusses how Shakespeare's Hamlet has been translated into different languages and cultures at various historical m... Lees meer

Minding Borders

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 5
• Both comparative criticism and translation cross borders, yet borders that have been crossed still exist. Even a border that has been dismantled is li... Lees meer