From Fidelity to History
From Fidelity to History

Author: Anne-Marie Scholz

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0857457322

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Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies— including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Portrait of a Lady (1997), and the classics The Third Man (1949) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)—the author demonstrates the ways adapted literary works function as social and cultural events in history and how these become important sites of cultural negotiation and struggle.

English/German Dictionary of Idioms
English/German Dictionary of Idioms

Author: Professor Hans Schemann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 1135114285

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This dictionary is the ideal supplement to the German/English Dictionary of Idioms, which together give a rich source of material for the translator from and into each language. The dictionary contains 15,000 headwords, each entry supplying the German equivalents, variants, contexts and the degree of currency/rarity of the idiomatic expression. This dictionary will be an invaluable resource for students and professional literary translators. Not for sale in Germany, Austria or Switzerland

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published:

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 375926252X

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The Trouble with Demons
The Trouble with Demons

Author: Lisa Shearin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-04-28

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1101046422

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For seeker Raine Benares, a demon infestation on the Isle of Mid couldn't come at a worse time. Already fighting the influence of the Saghred, a soul-stealing stone, Raine discovers she is also magically bonded to a dark mage and a white knight, two dangerous and powerful men on opposing sides. Turns out, the demons want the key to unlock the Saghred. As a seeker, Raine should be able to find it first. As the axis of light and dark powers, she's a magical cataclysm waiting to happen.