ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK

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WISSENSCHAFT MONOGRAPHIEN UND SAMMELBÄNDE
SWISS PAPERS IN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Annette Kern-Stahler
David Britain (eds.)
On the Move
Mobilities in English
Language and Literature
Swiss Papers in English Language
and Literature, Vol. 27
2012, ca. 216 Seiten,
ca. €[D] 49,00/SFr 81,00
ISBN 978-3-8233-6739-0
»All the world seems to be on the
move.« So began Sheller and Urry’s
declaration of a »new mobilities paradigm«,
a critique of what they called
the sedentarism of contemporary
social theory. In linguistic, literary
and cultural studies, mobility and
movement have been receiving increasing
critical attention for at least
two decades. On the move: Mobilities
in English language and literature
seeks to harness some of
this critique to explore how mobilities,
both mundane and dramatic,
are represented, narrated, performed
and negotiated in literature
and discourse, as well as the repercussions
and consequences of mobility
on language and dialect.
Deborah L. Madsen
Mario Klarer (eds.)
The Visual Culture
of Modernism
Swiss Papers in English Language
and Literature, Vol. 26
2011, 265 Seiten,
€[D] 49,00/SFr 81,00
ISBN 978-3-8233-6673-7
Guillemette Bolens / Lukas Erne (Hg.)
Medieval and Early
Modern Authorship
Swiss Papers in English Language
and Literature, Vol. 25
2011, 325 Seiten,
€[D] 49,00/SFr 65,50
ISBN 978-3-8233-6667-6
TRANSLATION, TEXT AND
INTERFERENCES
Translation Studies have recen -
tly emerged as a most critical
component in the Humanities,
building important bridges
between literary studies and
economics, engineering, and
sciences, for example. In order
to reach out to other cultures, to
work cross- and interdisciplinarily,
translation has to happen,
both literally on a linguistic level
and metaphorically. Translation
is here not only understood as a
strategy to render one text into
another language, but also as
an effort to reach out to another
culture and people, making
available specific keys to open
heretofore closed doors and
windows toward another culture.
This new book series wants to
explore ways how to combine
the technical aspect of trans -
lation with the cultural strate -
gies to reach out, to overcome
barriers, and to bridge abysses.
Eva Parra-Membrives
Miguel Ángel García
Peinado
Albrecht Classen (eds.)
Aspects of Literary
Translation
Building Linguistic and Cultural
Bridge in Past and Present
Translation, Text and Interferences,
Vol. 1
2012, 413 Seiten,
€[D] 68,00/SFr 91,00
ISBN 978-3-8233-6708-6
This first issue of the new book series
publishes papers dealing with a
variety of topics focused on translation
issues from the Middle Ages
until today, illustrating the variety
and complexity that emerge in all
translation efforts throughout time.
The contributors discuss literary
and technical translations in the
past and the present, including
those by English, Spanish, German,
and French authors. The present
collection of articles should serve
as a platform for current work with -
in the framework of literary trans -
lation and its application to
teaching both undergraduate and
graduate students.
REAL – Yearbook of
Research in English
and American Literature
Volume 27 (2011): States of
Emergency – States of Crisis
ed. by Winfried Fluck
Katharina Motyl
Donald E. Pease
Christoph Raetzsch (Hg.)
2011, XII, 385 Seiten,
€[D] 124,00/SFr 161,00
ISBN 978-3-8233-4182-6
The collapse of the Twin Towers
symbolizes the lapse into a per -
manent state of emergency at the
beginning of the 21st century. The
ensuing »War on Terror« ushered
in the suspension of civil liberties
in the United States, normalized a
disregard for International Law
and created serious doubts about
the legitimacy of the Western
world’s hegemonic order.
In the wake of 9/11, various
crises have shattered established
orders but also offered chances
for the emergence of new para -
digms. A new awareness of
»States of Emergency« and
»States of Crisis« reverberates
through the social, the political,
the cultural and literary realm.
Volume 27 of REAL Yearbook
brings together interdisciplinary
contributions by established and
upcoming scholars, using the
concepts »state of exception« and
»crisis« as new paradigms for the
analysis of American society and
culture, and covering, among
others, the contemporary
discourse of crisis, literary and
other fictional responses, as well
as theoretical discussions of key
problems of legitimation and the
lives of ‘precarious others.’