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An Approach to Translation Criticism: Emma and Madame Bovary in Translation

Product Description: Lance Hewson's book on translation criticism sets out to examine ways in which a literary text may be explored as a translation, not primarily to judge it, but to understand where the text stands in relation to its original by examining the interpretative potential that results from the translational choices that have been made...read more

By Lance Hewson

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9789027224439 | John Benjamins Pub Co, September 15, 2011, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: Lance Hewson's book on translation criticism sets out to examine ways in which a literary text may be explored as a translation, not primarily to judge it, but to understand where the text stands in relation to its original by examining the interpretative potential that results from the translational choices that have been made.

Author Representations in Literary Reading

Product Description: Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that give him prominence...read more

By Eefje Claassen

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9789027233455 | John Benjamins Pub Co, February 15, 2012, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader.

Cognitive Grammar in Literature

Product Description: This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas, as well as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Barrett Browning, Whitman, Owen and others...read more

By Wenjuan Yuan (editor)

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9789027234049 | John Benjamins Pub Co, April 23, 2014, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar.

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9789027234063 | John Benjamins Pub Co, April 23, 2014, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar.

Compelled to Write: Alternative Rhetoric in Theory and Practice

Product Description: David Wallace argues that any understanding of writing studies must include the conception of discourse as an embodied force with real consequences for real people. Informed in important ways by queer theory, Wallace calls to account users of dominant discourses and at the same time articulates a theory base from which to interpret "alternative rhetoric...read more

By David L. Wallace

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9780874218121 | Utah State Univ Pr, March 1, 2011, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: David Wallace argues that any understanding of writing studies must include the conception of discourse as an embodied force with real consequences for real people.

A Conceptual Blending Theory of Humour: Selected British Comedy Productions in Focus

Product Description: The book presents an analysis of humour in a selection of British comedy productions. The conceptual integration theory devised by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, also known as blending, provides the tool for explaining the creation of humour in detail...read more

By Joanna Jablonska-hood

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9783631659175 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 11, 2015, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: The book presents an analysis of humour in a selection of British comedy productions.

A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf's the Waves

By Giuseppina Balossi

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9789027234070 | John Benjamins Pub Co, June 12, 2014, cover price $149.00

Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction

By Michaela Mahlberg

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9780415800143 | Routledge, November 1, 2012, cover price $145.00

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9781138900073 | Routledge, May 21, 2015, cover price $48.95

Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres

Product Description: Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres analyses how human beings intentionally establish a network of relations that contribute to the construction of discourse in different genres in academic, promotional and professional domains in English, Spanish and Italian...read more

By Carmen Soler-monreal (editor)

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9789027210401 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 10, 2014, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres analyses how human beings intentionally establish a network of relations that contribute to the construction of discourse in different genres in academic, promotional and professional domains in English, Spanish and Italian.

Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharath, and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History

Product Description: âDialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of Historyâ explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtinâs theory of dialogics...read more

By Lakshmi Bandlamudi

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9781843318354, titled "Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History" | Anthem Pr, May 1, 2010, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: âDialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of Historyâ explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtinâs theory of dialogics.

Discourse and Literature

Product Description: Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780915027545 | John Benjamins Pub Co, October 1, 1985, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse.

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9780915027552 | John Benjamins Pub Co, January 1, 1985, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse.

Don Quixote: An Anatomy of Subversive Discourse

By James A. Parr

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9781223003597 | Juan De LA Cuesta, June 1, 1988, cover price $14.00

Dwelling in Language: Character, Psychoanalysis and Literary Consolations

Product Description: Since the heyday of narratology, character has been a contested theoretical field, moving uneasily between mimetic, structuralist and interdisciplinary paradigms. Built on Jacques Lacanâs ideas about subjectivity, langugage and ethics, Dwelling in Language broaches new ground by exploring characterâs ontological identity, its mode of being in literature...read more

By Margrât GunnarsdÂ¢ttir Champion

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9783631644379 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 25, 2013, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Since the heyday of narratology, character has been a contested theoretical field, moving uneasily between mimetic, structuralist and interdisciplinary paradigms.

Empty Revelations: An Essay on Talk About, and Attitudes Toward, Fiction

Product Description: What mysteries lie at the heart of fiction's power to enchant and engage the mind? Empty Revelations considers a number of philosophical problems that fiction raises, including the primary issue of how we can think and talk about things that do not exist...read more

By Peter Alward

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9780773540385 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, August 30, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: What mysteries lie at the heart of fiction's power to enchant and engage the mind?

Engagements With Close Reading

By Annette Federico

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9780415748018 | Routledge, November 20, 2015, cover price $130.00

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9780415748025 | Routledge, October 20, 2015, cover price $34.95

English Translations of Shen Congwen's Stories: A Narrative Perspective

Product Description: This book investigates the English translations of Shen Congwenâs stories. Shen Congwen (1902-1988) is one of the most acclaimed writers in modern Chinese literature. His works have been translated into more than ten languages and his 44 stories count with 70 different English translations...read more

By Minhui Xu

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9783034314053 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 23, 2013, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: This book investigates the English translations of Shen Congwenâs stories.

The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, Directness, Indirectness

Product Description: Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues evaluate writer-respondent relationships according to the same ethical criterion as applies for dialogue of any other kind. In a nutshell: Are writers and readers respecting each otherâs human autonomy? If and when the answer here is âYes!â, Sellâs team describe the communication that is going on as âgenuineâ...read more

By Inna Lindgren (editor)

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9789027210364 | John Benjamins Pub Co, October 15, 2013, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D.

Jokes and the Linguistic Mind

Product Description: Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language.Â In so doing, Debra Aarons shows that these 'linguistic jokes' can evoke our tacit knowledge of the language we use...read more

By Debra Aarons

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9780415890489 | Routledge, August 17, 2011, cover price $150.00

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9780415890496 | Routledge, August 17, 2011, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language.

Language, Gender and Children's Fiction

By Jane Sunderland

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9781441138187 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 24, 2012), cover price $39.95

Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Question of Style

Product Description: The language of science fiction, and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of other worlds, societies and characters that are alien to us in diverse and fundamental ways, but still compelling and knowable. This exciting book steps away from the issues of race, gender and politics that have saturated sci-fi and fantasy criticism...read more

By Susan Mandala

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9781847063014 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 20, 2010, cover price $150.00

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9781441145482, titled "The Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Question of Style" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 2, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The language of science fiction, and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of other worlds, societies and characters that are alien to us in diverse and fundamental ways, but still compelling and knowable.

The Language of Stories: A Cognitive Approach

Product Description: How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional ones? This book addresses such questions by describing the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation...read more

By Barbara Dancygier

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9781107005822 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 28, 2011, cover price $114.99

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9781107558618 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 2015), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: How do we read stories?

Last Things: Essays on Ends and Endings

Product Description: This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets these alongside parallel studies in journalism and film...read more

By Peter Wenzel (editor)

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9783631652466 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 19, 2015, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End.

The Literary and Linguistic Construction of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: No Ordinary Doubt

Product Description: What does it mean to live with obsessive-compulsive disorder in a time when the word "obsession" has become synonymous with "driven", "focused" or "infatuated"? This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder, both in its contemporary form and its historical antecedent, to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social, political, literary and linguistic counterparts, especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive society...read more

By Patricia Friedrich

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9781137493477 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 9, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: What does it mean to live with obsessive-compulsive disorder in a time when the word "obsession" has become synonymous with "driven", "focused" or "infatuated"?

Literary Community-making: The Dialogicality of English Texts from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

By Roger D. Sell (editor)

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9789027210319 | John Benjamins Pub Co, June 12, 2012, cover price $143.00

Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and cognition in adolescent literature

By Roberta Trites

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9789027201560 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 10, 2014, cover price $135.00

Literature and the Metaphoric Universe in the Mind

Product Description: Nicolae Babuts believes that the study of metaphoric thought and literature can be enriched by the application of recent discoveries from neuroscientifi c experiments. He maintains that metaphors are neither linguistic formations nor conceptual formations, but instead the product of association of images and language...read more

By Nicolae Babuts

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9781412856874 | Transaction Pub, September 30, 2015, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Nicolae Babuts believes that the study of metaphoric thought and literature can be enriched by the application of recent discoveries from neuroscientifi c experiments.

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