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Groundbreaking study connecting textual and contextual approaches For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated. What contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research. This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium. Contributors: Valérie Alfvén (Stockholm University), Delia Guijarro Arribas (EHESS), Michał Borodo (Kazimierz Wielki University), Anna Kérchy (University of Szeged), Gillian Lathey (University of Roehampton), Charlotte Lindgren (Dalarna University), Jack McMartin (KU Leuven), Lia A. Miranda de Lima (University of Brasília), Marija Zlatnar Moe (University of Ljubljana), Emer O’Sullivan (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Germana H. Pereira (University of Brasília), Anna Olga Prudente De Oliveira (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Annalisa Sezzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Zohar Shavit (Tel Aviv University), Marija Todorova (Hong Kong Polythechnic University), Jan Van Coillie (KU Leuven), Sara Van Meerbergen (University of Stockholm), Li Xueyi (independent scholar), Tanja Žigon (University of Ljubljana) This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive review of six hundred and fifty women writers from over fifty national traditions, spanning Europe and the Americas during the transformative years of 1776 to 1848. Framed by revolutionary upheavals, the book explores how women writers shaped and reflected Romanticism’s global currents. It fills a critical scholarly gap, connecting disparate traditions and uncovering voices often overlooked in male-dominated literary histories. Through concise entries, the book names every woman writer identified in its vast research, from celebrated figures like Phillis Wheatley to lesser-known authors whose manuscripts lay buried in archives. Each entry provides essential biographical details, while select excerpts in seventeen languages bring these voices to life, revealing how women navigated the era’s revolutionary ideals and patriarchal barriers. Structured democratically, the volume treats all writers equally—whether anonymous, pseudonymous, or celebrated in their time. It highlights their diverse experiences: poets and novelists, abolitionists and suffragists, mothers and mill workers. From memoirs to political tracts, their works testify to the rich tapestry of women’s contributions to Romanticism. By illuminating these stories, this book challenges national silos, offering a panoramic view of Romanticism as a truly transnational, female-inclusive phenomenon. It represents a go-to resource for students and interested readers, while setting the ground for future scholars to expand this vital field of study.

2015 Best Art Book Accolade, ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities Category Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. This book is dedicated to the history, theory, and practice of Tibetan medicine, a unique and complex system of understanding body and mind, treating illness, and fostering health and well-being. Sowa Rigpa has been influenced by Chinese, Indian, and Greco-Arab medical traditions but is distinct from them. Developed within the context of Buddhism, Tibetan medicine was adapted over centuries to different health needs and climates across the region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, and Mongolia. Its focus on a holistic approach to health has influenced Western medical thinking about the prevention, diagnoses, and treatment of illness. Generously illustrated with more than 200 images, Bodies in Balance includes essays on contemporary practice, pharmacology and compounding medicines, astrology and divination, history and foundational treatises. The volume brings to life the theory and practice of this ancient healing art.

La crise de l’autorité, dont les origines remontent au seizième siècle et qui est susceptible de définir jusqu’à nos jours toute la période moderne, n’empêche pas la notion d’autorité de conserver sa pertinence et sa fonction régulatrice dans l’ordre de la littérature, où elle aide à penser l’idée d’auteur. C’est l’hypothèse dont ce volume procède, en regroupant tous les articles qu’a suscités le Groupe φ au long de deux années de séminaire et au terme d’un colloque international – à l’instar des programmes et des ouvrages précédents du Groupe (Littératures sous contrat, L’engagement littéraire, Littérature et exemplarité). Il s’est agi, pour un ensemble d’une quarantaine de chercheurs, de relever dans une perspective de théorie littéraire le défi lancé en philosophie politique par Hannah Arendt dans La Crise de la culture : « En pratique aussi bien qu’en théorie, nous ne sommes plus en mesure de savoir ce que l’autorité est réellement. ». La faillite pluri-séculaire de l’autorité comme tradition, et la critique moderne et contemporaine de l’auctorialité comme garantie du sens, promeuvent des formes singulières et paradoxales de fonction-autorité ou d’effet-autorité en littérature, en suscitant les modalités originales de leur reconnaissance ou de leur contestation. Quatre mouvements composent ce volume, qui s’achève sur un épilogue (étude et entretien) consacré par Jean-Louis Jeannelle à l’œuvre critique de Susan R. Suleiman, professeure à l’Université de Harvard.

Reading Wars explores heated, even murderous, political struggles over who gets to read and what they get to read. Those conflicts, once again in the news, stretch back centuries. In this book, Don Herzog examines the history and politics of anxieties about readers and reading, spanning both the United States and Britain, from the 1500s right up to contemporary battles over banning library books and freedom of speech. In these pages, Herzog deftly interweaves episodes from Reformation England, when first Catholics and then Protestants cracked down on unsupervised Bible-reading, with the deadly campaigns in pre-Civil War America to keep black people – both free and enslaved – illiterate. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, he reconstructs arguments insisting that ordinary men and women could not be trusted to read what they liked – indeed, that some of them ought not read at all. And he charts struggles to promote literacy. Herzog argues that at stake in these battles is whether some people – those banned from reading – are perceived as not fully human, or lesser persons than others. The radical campaign to let more or less everyone read more or less everything is ultimately, therefore, a campaign for equality.

Cet ouvrage est le fruit d'une journée d'étude organisée en 2010 à la Maison du peuple de Saint-Claude (Jura). Dès son inauguration en 1910, l'édifice devint le centre névralgique et l’immeuble symbolique du mouvement ouvrier jurassien. Ce mouvement social se référait d’abord à un pragmatisme volontaire. Mais l’écoute et la lecture attentives des voix et des textes laissent affleurer l'utopie. Car sans être continuellement revendiqué, le rêve n’en apparaît pas moins comme essentiel. Neuf chercheurs questionnent ici le lien entre entreprises coopératives et discours utopistes en confrontant l'histoire et le présent, l'Europe de l'Ouest et l'Europe de l'Est.

Metallurgy is a field of material science and engineering that studies the chemical and physical behavior of metallic elements, intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. These metals are widely used in this kind of engineering because they have unique combinations of mechanical properties (strength, toughness, and ductility) as well as special physical characteristics (thermal and electrical conductivity), which cannot be achieved with other materials. In addition to thousands of traditional alloys, many exciting new materials are under development for modern engineering applications. Metallurgical engineering is an area concerned extracting minerals from raw materials and developing, producing, and using mineral materials. It is based on the principles of science and engineering, and can be divided into mining processes, which are concerned with the extraction of metals from their ores to make refined alloys, and physical metallurgy, which includes the fabrication, alloying, heat treatment, joining and welding, corrosion protection, and different testing methods of metals. Conventional metal forming/shaping techniques include casting and forging, which remains an important processing route. Electrodeposition is one of the most used methods for metal and metallic alloy film preparation in many technological processes. Alloy metal coatings offer a wider range of properties than those obtained by a single metal film and can be applied to improve the properties of the substrate/coating system. This book covers a wide range of topics related to recent advancements in metallurgical engineering and electrodeposition such as metallurgy forming, structure, microstructure properties, testing and characterizations, and electrodeposition techniques. It also highlights the progress of metallurgical engineering, the ferrous and non-ferrous materials industries, and the electrodeposition of nanomaterials and composites.

Appartenant aux métiers de luxe ou de semi-luxe, la profession d’épicier connaît un développement remarquable au xviiie siècle, particulièrement dans les villes portuaires, à la faveur de la croissance des échanges avec l’Outre-mer et de l’essor de la consommation des produits exotiques dans une partie de la population française. À partir des exemples de trois villes de l’ouest de la France, de taille et de statut fort différents, l’étude de ces marchands est l’occasion de saisir le rôle majeur qu’ils ont joué dans la diffusion de produits nouveaux. Elle permet aussi de reconstituer les circuits commerciaux empruntés par les nombreuses marchandises qu’ils commercialisent, depuis leur lieu d’origine jusqu’en France, puis leur diffusion au sein même du royaume, levant partiellement le voile sur la question du commerce intérieur à cette époque. La place des épiciers dans la société du xviiie siècle ou l’analyse de leur niveau de fortune sont autant d’aspects qui confirment l’honorabilité de cette profession, qui appartient alors à l’aristocratie du monde marchand urbain. En outre, la différence d’échelle entre les trois cités s’illustre parfaitement à partir de l’observation de ce groupe social, révélant aussi l’existence d’une « culture de l’Ouest » assez spécifique.

La période 1450-1550 est l’heure de gloire du théâtre médiéval. C’est dans sa fonction polémique que l’on arrive à retrouver son ancrage local ou régional, que l’on arrive à mieux cerner le côté événementiel des représentations, au-delà des questions génériques et typologiques. Si l’on veut déterminer la place de la polémique sur la scène, la seule approche possible paraît bien être un retour aux sources et une évaluation de la représentativité des sources. Ce qui paraît anecdotique (n’oublions pas qu’anecdotique veut dire « inédit ») ou saugrenu n’est pas nécessairement marginal. Cela pose la question du rapport entre les formes et les fonctions. Les articles du présent recueil innovent au sens où ils accordent une place majeure aux contextes plus larges des représentations et, aussi, aux communautés qui se trouvent à la base du fait théâtral. Une chambre de rhétorique du Nord, un puy marial normand, une faction genevoise et une abbaye de jeunesse d’une rue lyonnaise ne sauraient gratuitement être mis sur le même plan. Des sociabilités différentes président à la création et à l’effectivité polémique des représentations. Et le théâtre n’y revêt pas uniquement une fonction récréative, mais connaît d’autres emplois que ceux que nous attribuons aujourd’hui au théâtre. On n’ose presque plus le dire, mais qu’en est-il du théâtre comme moyen d’action ? Quels sont les liens entre le théâtre et l’opinion publique ? C’est pour répondre à de telles questions que l’équipe de recherches sur le théâtre médiéval de l’université d’Amsterdam a invité des spécialistes du monde entier à participer à ce volume collectif.

Although the global food system increasingly is viewed as unsustainable for human and planetary health, the policy pathways for transforming the status quo are often highly contentious. This book brings together inter-disciplinary scholars to analyze the political economy dynamics central to food system transformation and to identify pathways for enhancing the political feasibility of necessary reforms. Drawing on original surveys, interviews, empirical modeling, and case studies from around the world, the book delves into the power dynamics, interest group coalitions, narratives, and institutional structures that shape decisions related to agricultural productivity, agro-industry, trade, and food consumption.

Ties to the homeland have always been a central focus of global diaspora and migration studies. How and why do the descendants of migrants maintain their attachment to the ancestral homeland? To what extent do emotional ties bind second and later generations of migrants to that place? Tsypylma Darieva examines various actors, channels and sites of transnational Armenian engagement that generate new pathways of diasporic ›roots‹ mobility. Drawing on long-term ethnographic observations in Armenia and in the USA, she examines transnational flows of people, money and ideas to show the social and political significance that roots mobility acquires when the mythical ›homeland‹ becomes a real place.

Ésta es una historia sutil sobre cultura, dominación, resistencia y poder. Constituye un recorrido especial por los pasados de la India y la compleja relación de cuatro grandes temas: colonialismo, cristianismo, conversión y civilización. Saurabh Dube vierte en esta obra su profundo conocimiento sobre la historia de la India y las nuevas corrientes historiográficas para rastrear lo que pensaban, vivían y sentían aquellos indios que amalgamaron categorías coloniales con un cristianismo vernáculo y las legalidades populares. A pesar de ser actores subalternos rescribieron el guión de la misión civilizadora/ colonial y tradujeron el mensaje evangélico de maneras diversas y hasta contradictorias.

Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (1881–1956) is arguably one the most controversial figures in contemporary Serbian national culture. Having been vilified by the former Yugoslav Communist authorities as a fascist and an antisemite, this Orthodox Christian thinker has over the past two decades come to be regarded in Serbian society as the most important religious person since medieval times and an embodiment of the authentic Serbian national spirit. Velimirović was formally canonised by the Serbian ...

In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the ways in which identities, discourses, and topographies of both capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginaries and realities are embodied in the everyday practices of people. A World without Capitalism? is a sociolinguistic ethnography that explores the heretofore limited research in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics on the discursive and materialized representations and enactments of capitalism. Engaging across disciplinary fields, including applied linguistics, ethnography, political economy, philosophy, and cultural studies, Chun investigates in ethnographic detail how capitalism does and does not pervade people’s everyday experiences. This book aims to further contribute to a much-needed understanding of how discourses operate in the co-constructions of capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginaries and instantiated realities and practices as narrated, lived, and embodied by people and material artifacts. This book is vital reading for students and researchers working in the fields of applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and cultural studies, as well as those interested in understanding capitalism and questioning how to live beyond it.

El libro resultado de la investigación desarrollada en el marco de la formación doctoral pretende demostrar que los elementos principales que debe contener la Paz Histórica en una región como la del departamento de Nariño, y en sí en Colombia, son: democracia participativa, justicia social, dignidad humana y presencia integral del Estado. Con lo anterior, se procura exponer el por qué en Colombia y mucho menos en la región nariñense, en ningún momento se ha llevado a cabo la implementación del “Acuerdo de Paz”, pues lo que se firmó en noviembre de 2016 entre el Estado y las FARC-EP fue una rendición condicionada tanto en términos políticos y jurídicos.