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Murder in the crooked house
\"The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a disorienting maze of sloping floors and strangely situated staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny lifesize dolls. When a man is found dead in one of the mansion's rooms, murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances, the police are called. But they are unable to solve the puzzle, and powerless to protect the party of house guests as more bizarre deaths follow. Enter Kiyoshi Mitarai, the renowned sleuth, famous for unmasking the culprit behind the notorious Umezawa family massacre. Surely if anyone can crack these cryptic murders he will. But you have all the clues too - can you solve the mystery of the murders in The Crooked House first?\"--Provided by publisher.
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Translating Heteroglossia
According to James I. Crump, Chinese vernacular fiction is characterized by extensive use of “pastiche,” which includes both verbatim incorporation of other identifiable texts and generic parodies. This penchant finds its supreme manifestation in A Dream of Red Mansions (Honglou meng 紅樓夢). The vast variety of discourses and voices in Dream can be read as a manifestation of heteroglossia, and are intended to function dialogically, in the Bakhtinian senses of these terms. This essay examines the exact circumstances in which the two widely-read full English translations of Dream were produced and compares them in terms of their recognition and treatment of heteroglossia. I argue that although the Yangs’ may be characterized as “literal” in the sense of rendering “word for word,” what Hawkes achieves in his translation should be considered a higher level of literalness in the sense of “text for text.” While Hawkes consistently strives to retain the linguistic hybridity and subtle contrasts in the original, the Yangs often smooth out the checkered texture of the text by adopting a plain “international” English and resorting to copious footnotes.
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Clara en la oscuridad
\"Cerca de la gran ciudad se levanta La Rosa Negra, una inmensa mansión en ruinas, aparentemente deshabitada. Un bosque de árboles fantasmales, estatuas negras, sótanos secretos y recuerdos de otras épocas la envuelven en una atmósfera claustrofóbica. El azar llevará a Sergio y Clara, dos jóvenes de quince años, a penetrar una noche en este reino de sombras. Lo que no pueden sospechar es que su destino se esconde camuflado entre las paredes de la misteriosa mansión...\"--Page [4] of cover.
Deck the hallways
\"Even at Christmastime, Shannon is more spackle than sparkle, which is why she leaps at the chance to transform a grand old Victorian mansion into ten charming apartments for homeless families. Filled with the spirit of the season, all of Lighthouse Cove turns out to help--including her best friends, a troupe of far-from-angelic Santa Claus impersonators, and her father Jack. But their merriment is soon dashed by a heated scuffle between Jack and the miserly president of the bank who's backing the project\"--Amazon.com.
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Bao-yu and the Second Self
In the eighteenth-century Chinese novel Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber, 红楼梦), the numerous instances of pairing, mirroring, and doubling around the protagonist Jia Bao-yu serve to highlight a philosophical view of mutability grounded in Ying-Yang theory and Daoism, to emphasize the dynamic process of acquiring self-knowledge, and to subvert and problematize dualistic classification (truth/fiction, right/wrong, real/unreal). By considering the significance of the hero’s transformation in this context from the rejected Stone, into the Divine Luminescent Stone-in-Waiting, and then into Jia Bao-yu and his second self, I seek to expose the utopian dimensions of the text grounded in tension between Daoism and Confucianism and exemplified by Jia Bao-yu and Zhen Bao-yu respectively.
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Mr. Flood's last resort : a novel
\"Maud Drennan is a dedicated caregiver whose sunny disposition masks a deep sadness. A tragic childhood event left her haunted, in the company of a cast of prattling saints who pop in and out of her life like tourists. Cathal Flood is a menace by all accounts. The lone occupant of a Gothic mansion crawling with feral cats, he has been waging war against his son's attempts to put him into an old-age home and sent his last caretaker running for the madhouse. But Maud is this impossible man's last chance: if she can help him get the house in order, he just might be able to stay. Still, shadows are growing in the cluttered corners of the mansion, hinting at buried family secrets, and reminding Maud that she doesn't really know this man at all. When the forgotten case of a missing schoolgirl comes to light, she starts poking around, and a full-steam search for answers begins\"--Amazon.com.
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Epistemic Modality in Translation: Poe's \The Fall of the House of Usher\
\"The Fall of the House of Usher\" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's best known Gothic short stories. As is common for the genre, its macabre tone is set by elements such as an eerie mansion, mysterious disease, sudden death of a protagonist, ghost-like side characters, stormy nights, and a coffin in a vaulted cellar. Poe further enhanced the Gothic effects on the discourse level by consistently using epistemic modality. As the analysis shows, the first person narration abounds in verbal and adverbial phrases such as might have been, seemed to be, possibly, perhaps, and beyond doubt, which add to the narrator's uncertainty and are indicative of his inability to comprehend the mysterious events he witnessed during his visit to the House of Usher. Conversely, in the Slovene translation, epistemic modality markers are sometimes left out or modified. This has an effect on the macrostructural level of the narrative. Whereas in the original, the narrator's perception and reasoning are characterized by uncertainty, the 'same' narrator in the target text is seemingly better able to comprehend the reasons behind the otherwise inexplicable phenomena.
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A willing murder
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She accepts immediately, but with so little saved up, she'll have to approach her estranged yet incredibly famous aunt for a place to stay while she gets herself settled. But when she arrives at Sara's home, she finds she's not the only long-term houseguest. Jackson Wyatt already has his own room, and though it's impossible to deny his good looks and charm - he's clearly got her aunt wrapped around his finger - she's also never met anyone who irritates her quite like Jack does. However, when two skeletons are accidentally uncovered in the quiet town, this unlikely trio is suddenly thrust together by a common goal: to solve a mystery everyone else seems eager to keep under wraps. United by a sense of justice and the desire to right old wrongs, Sara, Kate and Jack will have to dig into Lachlan's murky past to unravel the small town's dark secrets and work to bring the awful truth to light.
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I'm Searching for a Home for Unwed Girls
Hegi shares that she was searching a home for unwed girls because her friend is pregnant and unmarried. She must get her far away from Burgdorf where the neighbors will gossip and cast her out. Here, she narrates her journey looking for the home.
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