Transforming Texts (Routledge A Level English Guides)
Develop students' ability to rewrite texts for new contexts, based around the skills specified in assessment objectives for AS and A2 Level English.
Review 'An invaluable resource for students attempting that difficult task of transforming existing texts into imaginative writing of their own ... Will be of practical use in the classroom, and students will be able to use the book to find inspiration, valuable source material, and confidence when writing commentaries.' - Jill Burton, Richard Huish College, Somerset
The book examines legal translation in its many facets from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering both theoretical and practical grounds and linguistic as well as legal issues. It analyses the basic skills and competence of the legal translator and various types of legal texts and is useful for translators, lawyers, linguistic and legal scholars and other professionals working in bilingual/multilingual legal context.
Breaking ground in post-colonial studies, Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues explores the west's relationship to the history of British colonialism within the context of cultural studies. Jyotsna Singh highlights the interconnections between early modern colonial encounters, later manifestations in the Raj and their lingering influence in the postcolonial Indian state. She examines the assumptions implicit in representations of colonialism and questions the validity of eyewitness accounts and unmediated experiences.
Singh combines official, formal narratives used in India and the unofficial, informal accounts of dissonant voices. Among the texts considered here are reviews of Shakespearean productions in colonial Calcutta and postcolonial, Indo-Anglian novels; seventeenth century travel narratives about India; eighteenth century "nabob" texts; letters of Sir William Jones, the Orientalist; and East India Company petitions.
Product Description: In recent years there has been a sustained growth of interest in medieval literary culture, and the range of critical activity within this field has expanded greatly, largely in response to the challenges of modern critical theory. Some of the most stimulating work has tackled the subject of sexual difference and gender construction in medieval texts. Reponding to this tendency, editors Rudy Evans and Lesley Johnson have gathered a singularly effective and impressive collection of essays ranging from writing on such figures as Margery Kempe, Christine de Pisan, Langland, and Chaucer. As one of the first texts ever published on theories of sexual difference and medieval literature, Evans and Johnson contribute incisively both to the debate and discussion of sexual difference in pre-modern literature.
Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.
* A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. * Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. * Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts. * Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d'Arthur. * Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form. * Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week's work in a semester-long course. * Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.
