Category - Literary Criticism

What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have diffe...

The stories of the Cherokee people presented here capture in written form tales of history, myth, and legend for readers, speakers, and scholars ...

This book explores poetry by Sherko Bekas, a Kurdish writer and Swedish Tucholsky award winner, providing contextualising biography (with original ...

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to a...

Often, the story of encounters between Asia and the West has been told as one of success, of cross-fertilization, reciprocal stimulation and an exc...

Die dynamische Erforschung des Althochdeutschen findet ihren Niederschlag in kontinuierlicher Weiterentwicklung der Althochdeutschen Grammatik. So ...

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their...

An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writ...

First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to...

" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." --Journal of Aesthetics and Art C...

This updated second edition of Signs combines some of Sebeok's most important essays with a new general introduction, introductory passages at th...