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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “chantal wright”
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  • Literary Translation

    by Chantal Wright ...
    Series series Routledge Translation Guides
    Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from existing translations, activities, further reading suggestions and a glossary of key terms.Literary Translation introduces students to the ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue

    An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright

    by Yoko Tawada, Chantal Wright ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko Tawada entitled ‘Portrait of a Tongue’ [‘Porträt einer Zunge’, 2002]. Yoko Tawada is a native speaker of Japanese who learned German as an adult ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Age of Translation

    A Commentary on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Task of the Translator'

    by Antoine Berman ...
    Translated by Chantal Wright ...
    The Age of Translation is the first English translation of Antoine Berman’s commentary on Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay ‘The Task of the Translator’. Chantal Wright’s translation includes an introduction which positions the text in relation to current developments in translation studies, and provides prefatory explanations before each section as a guide to Walter Benjamin’s ideas. These include ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Theodor W. Adorno

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Bowie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society evident in today's climate emergency, the financial crash, the reappearance of fascism in many countries, and the growing instability of the world order. ... Read more

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  • Sloterdijk Now

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Series series Theory Now
    Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most challenging and contentious thinkers currently working within the European tradition. This is the first collection devoted to his work for English-language audiences and will act as an introduction to his work, set an agenda for engagement with his ideas, and relate his writings to a range of political, theoretical and practical contexts.Since his philosophical ... Read more

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  • The Foundation of the Unconscious

    Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche

    by Matt Ffytche ...
    The unconscious, cornerstone of psychoanalysis, was a key twentieth-century concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of investigation into its roots in the critical philosophy and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century, long before Freud. Why did the unconscious emerge as such a powerful idea? And why at that point? ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein's Ladder

    Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    "[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein's conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry." —Linda Voris, Boston ReviewMarjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously ... Read more

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  • Freud's 'Outstanding' Colleague/Jung's 'Twin Brother'

    The suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross

    by Gottfried M. Heuer ...
    Otto Gross was the first analyst to link his work with radical politics, connecting inner, personal transformation with outer, collective change. Since his death in 1920 his work has been suppressed, despite his seminal influence on the developing analytic discipline and on the fields of sociology, philosophy and literature. Here Gottfried M. Heuer introduces Gross’ life and ideas, using an ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Haunting History

    For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past

    by Ethan Kleinberg ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization of lived experience, materialism, and the "real;" new trends in philosophy of history; and ... Read more

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  • Film and Stereotype

    A Challenge for Cinema and Theory

    by Jörg Schweinitz ...
    Translated by Laura Schleussner ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Since the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cliché, conventional imagery, and recurring narrative patterns of reduced complexity in cinema. Whether it's the high-noon showdown or the last-minute rescue, a lonely woman standing in the window or two lovers saying goodbye in the rain, many films rely on scenes of stereotype, and audiences have come to ... Read more

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  • Comparative Children's Literature

    by Emer O'Sullivan ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD!Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period – which set out from the idea of a ... Read more

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