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Born Translated
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-04 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels includ
The Birth to Presence
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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The epoch of representation is as old as the West. Indeed, representation is the West, understood as what at once designates and expands its own limits. But wha
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Eric Hayot
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-29 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development o
Born in the Blood
Language: en
Pages: 485
Authors: Brian Swann
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Since Europeans first encountered Native Americans, problems relating to language and text translation have been an issue. Translators needed to create the tool
Cosmopolitan Style
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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This is a groundbreaking work which links the novels of modernist, contemporary, and postcolonial authors to rethink the political nature of cosmopolitanism.