Author: Theo Hermans
Publisher: Boulevard Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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A handy-sized upbeat guide to novels and stories written in Dutch and Flemish which are available in English.

Author: Dave Treece
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Mostly British scholars of literature review selected Brazilian novels and short story anthologies currently available in English translation, some new and some classic in their original Portuguese.

Author: Thomas Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199394466
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions: First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you will you miss if you confine your research entirely, or even primarily, to sources available on the open Internet? Second, if you are trying to get a reasonably good overview of the literature on a particular topic, rather than just "something quickly" on it, what are the several alternative methods of subject searching--which are not available on the Web--that are usually much more efficient for that purpose than typing keywords into a blank search box, with the results displayed by relevance-ranking computer algorithms? This book shows researchers how to do comprehensive research on any topic. It explains the variety of search mechanisms available, so that the researcher can have the reasonable confidence that s/he has not overlooked something important. This includes not just lists of resources, but discussions of the ways to search within them: how to find the best search terms, how to combine the terms, and how to make the databases (and other sources) show relevant material even when you don't know how to specify the best search terms in advance. The book's overall structuring by nine methods of searching that are applicable in any subject area, rather than by subjects or by types of literature, is unique among guides to research. Also unique is the range and variety of concrete examples of what to do--and of what not to do. The book is not "about" the Internet: it is about the best alternatives to the Internet--the sources that are not on the open Web to begin with, that can be found only through research libraries and that are more than ever necessary for any kind of substantive scholarly research. More than any other research guide available, this book directly addresses and provides solutions to the serious problems outlined in recent studies documenting the profound lack of research skills possessed by today's "digital natives."

Author: Ray Keenoy
Publisher: Boulevard Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Who better to tell the story of the Jewish People than the tribe of Jewish storytellers? And what a tribe -- Proust, Kafka, Primo Levi, Shalom Aleichem, Israel Zangwill, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Clarice Lispector, Mordecai Richler, Amos Oz and Nobel-winner S Y Agnon. The Babel Guide is a unique introduction to fiction by Jews from around the world available in English with inviting, informative reviews of 150 new and old Jewish classics, with an author database and a listing of all fiction translated from Yiddish and Hebrew into English.

Author: Juris Dilevko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598849093
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.

Author: Theo Hermans
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571132937
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 743

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An authoritative volume that is the first literary history of the Netherlands and Flanders in English since the 1970s

Author: Anthony Pym
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027293414
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Translation Studies has recently been searching for connections with Cultural Studies and Sociology. This volume brings together a range of ways in which the disciplines can be related, particularly with respect to research methodologies. The key aspects covered are the agents behind translation, the social histories revealed by translations, the perceived roles and values of translators in social contexts, the hidden power relations structuring publication contexts, and the need to review basic concepts of the way social and cultural systems work. Special importance is placed on Community Interpreting as a field of social complexity, the lessons of which can be applied in many other areas. The volume studies translators and interpreters working in a wide range of contexts, ranging from censorship in East Germany to English translations in Gujarat. Major contributions are made by Agnès Whitfield, Daniel Gagnon, Franz Pöchhacker, Michaela Wolf, Pekka Kujamäki and Rita Kothari, with an extensive introduction on methodology by Anthony Pym.

Author: Ray Keenoy
Publisher: Boulevard Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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The Babel guide has 150 original reviews of books by Italian authors available in English. Each review provides a kind of trailer for the work with an extract as a taster. It includes a database of Italian fiction translated into English since 1945 with original titles and current prices. This is the first in a series of illustrated guides, written in a lively and accessible style. It aims to provide potential readers with an idea of whether a book will suit their own tastes.

Author: Stichting Ons Erfdeel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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