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  • Dictionarization of Catalan Neologisms

    Edited by Judit Freixa, M. Isabel Guardiola, Josep Martines, M. Amor Montané ...
    Series Book 3 - Catalan Studies in Culture and Linguistics
    This book is concerned with the study of neologisms in Catalan, specifically with the description of their features. It is based on the results of the research project “Neologismes per a l’actualització del diccionari normatiu” (NADIC) (studying neologisms to update the standard Catalan dictionary), financed by Institut d’Estudis Catalans, and carried out by the Network of Catalan Language Neology ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

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    by Jorge DIAZ CINTAS ...
    New Trends in Audiovisual Translation is an innovative and interdisciplinary collection of articles written by leading experts in the emerging field of audiovisual translation (AVT). In a highly accessible and engaging way, it introduces readers to some of the main linguistic and cultural challenges that translators encounter when translating films and other audiovisual productions. The chapters ... Read more

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  • Sociolinguistic Aspects of Brazilian Portuguese: R Deletion

    by Leonardo Reis ...
    This book brings attention to R deletion around the world, mainly in Brazilian Portuguese in the city of Belo Horizonte, where the occurrence is mostly found. The study focuses on the sociolinguistic and phonetic impact of R deletion in Brazilian Portuguese. R deletion is an old phenomenon originating in Vulgar Latin. This phenomenon is seen as a characteristic of the lower-class population. Does ... Read more

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  • Reading Visual Poetry

    by Willard Bohn ...
    Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their plasticity. In contrast to traditional poetry, they are conceived not only as literary works but also as ... Read more

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  • The Language of the Inka since the European Invasion

    by Bruce Mannheim ...
    Series series Texas Linguistics Series
    The Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532-1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants throughout the southern Andes. In this innovative study, Bruce Mannheim synthesizes all that is currently known about the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing new ... Read more

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  • Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

    by Karl Erik Schollhammer ...
    This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and ... Read more

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  • Screen Translation

    Special Issue of The Translator (Volume 9/2, 2003)

    Edited by Yves Gambier ...
    There are three fundamental issues in the field of screen translation, namely, the relationship between verbal output and pictures and soundtrack, between a foreign language/culture and the target language/culture, and finally between the spoken code and the written one. All three issues are raised and discussed by contributors to this special issue of The Translator.The topics covered include the ... Read more

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  • Severo Sarduy and the Neo-Baroque Image of Thought in the Visual Arts

    by Rolando Pérez ...
    Series Book 53 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría, René Prieto, Gustavo Guerrero, and other reputable scholars. Missing, however, from what is ... Read more

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  • The Art of Ana Clavel

    Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires

    by JaneElizabeth Lavery ...
    Ana Clavel is a remarkable contemporary Mexican writer whose literary and multimedia oeuvre is marked by its queerness. The queer is evinced in the manner in which she disturbs conceptions of the normal not only by representing outlaw sexualities and dark desires but also by incorporating into her fictive and multimedia worlds that which is at odds with normalcy as evinced in the presence of the ... Read more

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    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    One of the most widely read books in the world, considered a metaphor for the human condition, and suitable for a variety of interpretations, The Adventures of Pinocchio has had a major impact on world culture. The book responds to a prerogative that belongs only to masterpieces: that of being out of time. The book focuses on the psychological investigation of his central character Pinocchio, ... Read more

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    Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism

    by Professor Esther Gabara ...
    Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas.With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal regimes, focusing on the crucial role of fiction in daily politics. Gabara argues that these fictions depart from familiar literary narrative structures ... Read more

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  • Learning from Madness

    Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art

    by Kaira M. Cabañas ...
    Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the "art of the insane" that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s to the 1960s, the direction and creation of art by the mentally ill was actively encouraged by prominent figures in both medicine and art criticism, ... Read more

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