Translation and Nation
Translation and Nation

Author: Roger Ellis

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781853595172

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This text focuses on the construction of Englishness through vernacular translations. It suggests ways of looking at the questioning of the English subject through texts that engage with translation in differing ways.

A Contradiction Still
A Contradiction Still

Author: Christa Knellwolf King

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780719053337

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This text offers a critique of the views concerning gender and gender roles in Pope's poetry. It engages directly with current issues in feminist criticism, cultural studies and identity politics.

Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery
Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery

Author: Judy A. Hayden

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1137568038

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The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one's conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one's beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex challenges. Advances in astronomy, such as the theories of Copernicus, the development of the telescope, and Galileo's discoveries and descriptions of the moon sparked intense debate in Early Modern literary discourse. The essays in this collection demonstrate that this discourse not only stimulated international discussion about lunar voyages and otherworldly habitation, but it also developed a political context in which these new discoveries and theories could correspond metaphorically to New World exploration and colonization, to socio-political unrest, and even to kingship and regicide.

Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn
Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn

Author: Laura L. Runge

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1839982020

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Aphra Behn (1640–1689), prolific and popular playwright, poet, novelist, translator, has a fascinating and extensive corpus of literature that plays a key role in literary history. Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion offers what no book has done to date, an analysis of all Behn’s literary output. It examines the author’s use of words in terms of frequencies and distributions and stacks the words in context to read Behn’s word usage synchronically. Using this experimental method, the book brings digital humanities into literary criticism, to enhance our understanding and appreciation of literature beyond what is possible in diachronic reading and scholarship less supported by digital means. The empirical approach works in collaboration with existing scholarship to understand Behn’s distinct language of love and extreme passions across her genres.