This book features papers on the latest developments in corpus-based translation studies, contrastive studies, parallel corpus development, and bilingual lexicography. It is a useful resource for researchers and postgraduates in translation and linguistics.
The Quest
This volume describes the story of Troy and theories on whether it existed. It explores excavations from pathfinders like Schliemann to modern projects, and asks if an early attempt to find Troy was a clandestine mission to record local topography.
Waterford’s Anglicans
As Catholic democracy eroded the power of Waterford’s Church of Ireland community, they retreated into denominationalism. This study focuses on their controversial bishop, Robert Daly, a ‘Protestant Pope’ who strove to resist the Catholic Church’s advances.
This pioneering study explores the new female Muslim identity. Through interdisciplinary essays, it examines the daily struggles, challenges, choices, and rights of Muslim women globally, both within and outside the Muslim world, in the twenty-first century.
Language as a Complex System
To investigate language, we must cross academic boundaries. This book connects and integrates linguistics, biology, and computation to boost the interchange of knowledge between specialists, providing innovative tools and models to approach the study of language.
The Nature of Reality and the Reality of Nature
Drawing on unpublished papers, this study unveils a Leibniz of breathtaking boldness, whose ambition was to solve the enigma of existence by uniting physical reality with metaphysical possibility.
A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift’s Irish Tracts
This work contextualizes Swift’s masterpiece, A Modest Proposal, within his wider writing on Ireland. It analyzes a selection of his Irish Tracts to trace the evolution of his views, providing new insights for a better understanding of the satire.
Wesleyan Theology and Social Science
John Wesley used science and theology to improve lives. This book continues that legacy, bringing current psychology into conversation with Wesleyan theology. In these essays, science and theology partner so that all persons can live fully and well.
The barriers between genres have broken down, posing the question of what constitutes a novel today. This collection of essays examines generic instability and narrative impostures, demonstrating that this instability is the contemporary novel’s identity.
On the Wings of Eagles
Gaius Marius was an innovative commander whose reforms changed the Roman military from a short-term militia into a professional standing army. This allowed Rome to expand but came at a cost to the state’s stability. This book charts the military implications of his reforms.
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana)
Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.
Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation
From different disciplinary angles, these essays explore key questions in International American Studies: What are the symbolic and material relations between the “Americas,” the “USA,” and the “World”? And how does American experience shape global practices?
The Resonance of a Small Voice
A pioneering study of Walton’s Violin Concerto, placed in the golden age of the English concerto (1900-1940). It sheds new light on works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Britten, and uncovers unjustly forgotten masterpieces.
Coming of Age on Film
Twelve film scholars examine the theme of coming of age in the cinema of Latin America, Europe, and Africa. These essays explore transformation in individuals and nations, bringing attention to a widely represented but minimally studied theme in global cinema.
“This Shipwreck of Fragments”
This book examines Caribbean cultural identities beyond the popular perception of hybridity. Drawing on literature and music from the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean, it reveals troubled pasts and current problems eclipsed by the “tropical getaway” myth.
Before St. John’s, the first fever hospital, patients suffered and died in their homes. The spread of fever was controlled by isolating them. This Irish study covers the cholera epidemic of 1832 and the Great Famine of the 1840s.
In these thought-provoking essays, Irish Catholic writers from diverse backgrounds examine a wide range of issues: liturgy, politics, culture, and bioethics. This collection explores the Catholic tradition as lived in Ireland, offering an encouragement to fidelity.
Issues in Accents of English 2
This book explores variability in English accent production and perception by native and non-native speakers. Based on original data, it discusses intelligibility, identity, motivation, stress, and rhythm to contribute to pronunciation teaching.
Creative Interventions
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
Translation Reconsidered
This interdisciplinary study argues that translation does not merely relocate a text, but negotiates and alters relationships between cultures. Focusing on the cultural history of Bengal, it explores how genres are also translated, assuming striking new shapes.
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