Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960-1991
During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite fluctuating government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews with literary translators, Made Under Pressure offers an insider's look at Soviet censorship and the ......
In his poems Dario Jaramillo relentlessly interrogates time, ecstatically celebrates life lived, and mourns its transience. A dual language (Spanish/English) collection, introducing the major contemporary Colombian poet to English-language readers.
Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities
A study of interlocutor reference that significantly deepens our understanding of the ways in which self-other relations are linguistically mediated in social interaction, based on the analysis of Southeast Asian languages. Terms used by speakers to refer to themselves and their interlocutors form one of the ways that language expresses, ......
It has been said that the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in Arabic in 2002, ""Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not ......
The Nahuatl Sermonary of Fray Bernardino De Sahagun
The first English publication of the earliest surviving Christian sermons from the Americas The Americas' First Sermons presents the first English translation and critical study of the complete set of sermons composed by Franciscan friar Bernardino de SahagUn and his Nahua students at the Imperial College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, Mexico in ......
The Nahuatl Sermonary of Fray Bernardino De Sahagun
The first English publication of the earliest surviving Christian sermons from the Americas The Americas' First Sermons presents the first English translation and critical study of the complete set of sermons composed by Franciscan friar Bernardino de SahagUn and his Nahua students at the Imperial College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, Mexico in ......
An engaging and thought-provoking translation of Paul Ricoeur's earliest work that is essential for understanding his philosophical development The Reflexive Method Applied to the Problem of God in Lachelier and Lagneau, now held in the Ricoeur Archive in Paris, was a qualifying thesis Ricoeur wrote at the age of twenty-one when he was just ......
An engaging and thought-provoking translation of Paul Ricoeur's earliest work that is essential for understanding his philosophical development The Reflexive Method Applied to the Problem of God in Lachelier and Lagneau, now held in the Ricoeur Archive in Paris, was a qualifying thesis Ricoeur wrote at the age of twenty-one when he was just ......
