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  • A Slavic Republic of Letters

    The Correspondence between Jernej Kopitar and Baron Žiga Zois

    by Luka Vidmar ...
    Series Book 2 - Thought, Society, Culture
    This book discusses the correspondence between Jernej Kopitar, a co-founder of Slavic studies and proponent of Austro-Slavism, and Baron Žiga Zois, an Austrian nobleman and patron of the Slovene national revival. The author treats their letters (composed between 1808–19), which are for the most part unpublished, both as historical sources and as texts. In the first part of the book, he situates ... Read more

    $90.09 CAD

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    On the Verge of Nihilism

    by Paolo Stellino ...
    Series Book 6 - Lisbon Philosophical Studies – Uses of Languages in Interdisciplinary Fields
    The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L’esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn. The second, metaphorical encounter between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky happened on the verge of nihilism. Nietzsche announced the ... Read more

    $114.39 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders

    Edited by Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, Catherine Gibson ...
    This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy.Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity ... Read more

    $306.19 CAD

  • Smugglers

    by Ales Debeljak ...
    Translated by Brian Henry ...
    The poems in Smugglers move through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. Ultimately, Aleš Debeljak's urban imagination creates a mosaic—intimate and historical—of a vanished people and their country. Every poem in Smugglers is sixteen lines long—four quatrains, a common form ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Essays and Studies in Middle English

    9th International Conference on Middle English, Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, 2015

    Edited by Jacek Fisiak, Magdalena Bator, Marta Sylwanowicz ...
    Series Book 49 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Middle English held at Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna (Philological School of Higher Education) in Wrocław, Poland, from April 30 to May 3, 2015. The contributors cover a wide range of topics in the area of language and literature. The linguistic papers constitute the majority of contributions and focus on problems ... Read more

    $94.19 CAD

  • From Sound to Meaning in Context

    Studies in Honour of Piotr Ruszkiewicz

    Edited by Alicja Witalisz ...
    Series Book 8 - Text – Meaning – Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture
    This volume is a collection of papers approaching the phenomenon of language from a variety of perspectives. Scholars in phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, historical linguistics and translation studies share the results of their research. They invite the reader on a journey into the multifaceted and complex world of human language, moving from the study of sound through the description of ... Read more

    $102.29 CAD

  • The Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English

    The Demise of *dugan, munan, *-nugan, *þurfan, and unnan

    by Anna Wojtyś ...
    Series Book 51 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of their distribution in Old and Middle English. The subsequent comparison of the forms and uses of the preterite-presents in the two periods allows the author to suggest the reasons for their elimination from the language. The discussion ... Read more

    $83.39 CAD

  • The Politics of Dubbing

    Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy

    by Carla Mereu Keating ...
    Series Book 20 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates surrounding the use of the Italian language, the rebirth of the national film industry and cinema’s mass popularity.Through the ... Read more

    $90.09 CAD

  • Language, Identity and Urban Space

    The Language Use of Latin American Migrants

    by Tabea Salzmann ...
    Series Book 11 - Sprache - Identitaet - Kultur
    Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage, migration, space, in particular urban space, and the constitution of cultural identity. Two corpora of Andean migrants’ Spanish ... Read more

    $119.79 CAD

  • «Miłosz Like the World»

    Poet in the Eyes of Polish Literary Critics

    Edited by Zdzislaw Lapinski ...
    Series Book 6 - Cross-Roads
    Czesław Miłosz, poet, literary critic, essayist and Nobel Laureate, is a familiar person to the Anglophone literary community. But American and British critics in the main are not very competent in the intimate features of Polish literary culture and have no access to the Polish language. This volume presents some of the most penetrating commentaries on Miłosz’s œuvre by Polish critics. They ... Read more

    $130.49 CAD

  • Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax

    With Special Reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic

    Edited by David Langslow ...
    This book is an English version of two series of highly acclaimed introductory lectures given by the great Swiss linguist and classical philologist Jacob Wackernagel (1853-1938) at the University of Basle in 1918-19 on aspects of Greek, Latin, and German as languages. Out of print in German since 1996, these lectures remain the best available introduction, in any language, not only to Greek, Latin ... Read more

    $319.99 CAD