The Foreign Connection

Jamie McKendrick

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 17
• The word 'foreign' has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root - foris : a door - is close to the spirit of these writings which explore open... Lees meer

Memory Across Borders

Sara-Louise Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 6
• Historical memory emerges through dialogue between one generation and the next. But what happens to this dialogue if the children speak a different la... Lees meer

Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy

Julia Hartley

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 12
• What can Dante tell us about Proust, and what can Proust tell us about Dante? In this book, Hartley follows a process of analogy, reading Dante's Divi... Lees meer

Zola and the Art of Television

Kate Griffiths

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 3
• Émile Zola (1840-1902) has become one of the most adapted authors of all time, but while much has been made of his adaptation into cinema and theatre,... Lees meer

The Diasporic Canon

Marta Arnaldi

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 20
• The Diasporic Canon is the first monograph to be dedicated to the history of a national literary canon in another language and country. By exploring I... Lees meer

After Clarice

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 14
• Forty years after her death, Clarice Lispector's startling oeuvre continues to fascinate readers and scholars. Internationally acclaimed writers, from... Lees meer

Memory Across Borders

Sara-Louise Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 6
• Historical memory emerges through dialogue between one generation and the next. But what happens to this dialogue if the children speak a different la... Lees meer

Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 19
• When a society emerges from authoritarian rule, and the State no longer claims a monopoly on the truth, writing becomes essential - in representing ri... Lees meer

Uruguayan Theatre in Translation

Sophie Stevens

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 15
• Uruguayan theatre is receiving increased attention in the UK and, having contributed new translations and scholarship to this field, Sophie Stevens he... Lees meer

Can Fiction Change the World?

• Hardcover | Engels | Transcript | nr. 29
• Can fiction change the world? Does it in fact do so? From Don Quixote's delusions to Emma Bovary's romantic daydreams, fiction has often portrayed its... Lees meer

Prismatic Translation

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 10
• Translation can be seen as producing a text in one language that will count as equivalent to a text in another. It can also be seen as a release of mu... Lees meer