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Disarming words
In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. She examines the afterlives of two occupations of Egypt--by the French in 1798 and by the British in 1882--in a rich comparative analysis of acts, fictions, and theories that translated the European into the Egyptian, the Arab, or the Muslim.
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The fictional world of Javier Marias : language and uncertainty
\"The Fictional World of Javier Marías offers a fresh perspective on the narrative universe of one of Spain's most distinguished contemporary authors. In order to establish the origin and meaning of uncertainty in his fiction, this book presents interpretations of a range of issues inherent to Marías's canon, in particular those related to the nature of language. With the relationship between language and uncertainty at its heart, this study considers the use of foreign languages, translation, and the effect of silence through an analysis of: Todas las almas (1989), Corazón tan blanco (1992), Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (1994) and Tu rostro mañana (2002-2007)\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Call it english
Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In transnational readings of works from the late-nineteenth century to the present by both immigrant and postimmigrant generations, Hana Wirth-Nesher traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, cross-cultural translations, and bilingual wordplay.
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Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture. How languages deal with color is given particular emphasis.
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Words in Collision
For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and
phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in
Collision explores this tradition of language-mixing and its
consequences. Returning to Shakespeare's Henry V , Michael
Ross asks why writers employ \"foreign\" phrases in their
English-language texts, why this practice continues, and what it
means. He finds that the insertion of \"foreign elements,\" rather
than random or arbitrary, occurs in literary works that display a
self-conscious preoccupation with language in general as a dynamic
determinant of social relations. Discussing nineteenth-century
works by Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, and Henry James, the
book demonstrates how multilingualism connects with themes of
cosmopolitanism, estrangement, and resistance to social convention.
In the second half of the book, the multilingual practices of
canonical Anglo-American literature are compared with postcolonial
texts by Caribbean, Nigerian, and Indian authors, including
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Arundhati Roy, whose choice of
language is fraught with complex moral and artistic implications.
Ross's readings reveal both crucial departures and surprising
underlying continuities in linguistic traditions often thought to
be deeply divided in time, space, and politics. The first extended
treatment of language-mixing in English texts, Words in
Collision is critical to understanding past practices and
future prospects for multilingualism in fiction.
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Lectures to Specters: Ozick's Genealogies
Cynthia Ozick is often considered one of the few writers willing to identify herself specifically as a Jewish writer. Yet this characterization of Ozick obscures more than it illuminates. By attending to the understudied themes of genealogy and sexuality in Ozick's work, a more complicated picture of her relation to Jewish identity emerges. This article shows how Ozick figures the ambivalent relation of Jewish identity and literature through deviant sexualities and genealogical breakdown, through a reading of her novella \"Envy; or Yiddish in America\" (1969). Drawing on studies of the biological imagination in Jewish literature, post-vernacular Yiddish histories, and recent critical scholarship on identity in Jewish literary study, I read Ozick as a theorist of the entanglement, tense but generative, of literature and desire. My reading seeks not only to revise our scholarly relation to this canonical figure, but also to use genealogy to ask how literature complicates normative models of identity in Jewish studies.
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Spheres of Action
With contributions from leading Romanticist scholars who draw on literary history, performance studies, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology, Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period. These essays consider cultural phenomena such as elocution and political oratory, newspaper journalism, public mourning, the function of gesture and clothing in theatre - even a long-distance walking contest. They examine the problematic relationships among action, agency, and language in a variety of cultural institutions and media from the era.
Exploring aspects of public speaking and body language, these essays propose that understanding the culture and institutions of the Romantic period requires nuanced approaches to performance and agency. The collection also studies the ways in which the Romantics discovered both the potency and limitations of performativity.
Presenting a boldly multifaceted portrait of Romantic culture, Spheres of Action is essential reading for Romanticists, historians, and scholars with interests in language and performance.
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