Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become a classic introduction to the major elements of a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition, Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her theoretical model, updating the chapters on literary narrative and adding new examples from outside the field of literary studies. Some specific additions include discussions on dialogue in narrative, translation as transformation (including translation between different media), intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and the place of the subject in narratology.
The BTL aims to stimulate research and training in translation and interpreting studies. The Library provides a forum for a variety of approaches (which may sometimes be conflicting) in a socio-cultural, historical, theoretical, applied and pedagogical context. The Library includes scholarly works, reference books, post-graduate text books and readers in the English language.
This study takes as its point of departure an essential premise: that the widespread phenomenon of expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it, but one which renders uncanny all tropes of familiarity and immediacy which 'fatherlands' and 'mother tongues' are traditionally seen as providing. In this framework, similarly totalizing notions of cultural authenticity are seen to govern both exoticist mystification and 'nativist' obsessions with the purity of the 'mother tongue
Forum Vol. 1 - Studies in Comparative Literature and Translation
"Forum Vol. 1 - Studies in Comparative Literature and Translation" is a university booklet for the students of British linguistics, literature, and culture. This edition is multilingual. Most of the text is in English, but you may also encounter parts of Russian and Polish. Details provided in table of content.
The Map: A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies
This book is intended as a guide for student who are required to undertake research in Translation Studies and present it in written and/or oral form. It is not an introduction to Translation Studies as such; we assume that readers already have a basic familiarity with the field. The Map aims to provide a step-by-step introduction to doing research in an area which, because of its interdisciplinary nature, can present the inexperienced researcher with a bewildering array of topics and methodologie.
