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Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation
This book takes a corpus-based approach, which integrates translation studies and contrastive analysis, to the study of translational language. It presents the worlds first balanced corpus of translational Chinese, which, in combination with a comparable native Chinese corpus, provides a reliable empirical basis for a comprehensive account of the macro-statistic, lexical, and grammatical featur…
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- 1
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- 9783642413636
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- XVII, 205
- Series Title
- New Frontiers in Translation Studies
- Call Number
- 420
Doubt's Boots Even Doubt's Shadow
Charles Noble’s long poem playfully connects autobiography, narrative, philosophy, history, and satire and experiments with language and structure in a way that pushes the limits of contemporary poetry. Noble leaves no leaf unturned as he touches on issues related to contemporary Western society, including mass media culture, gender politics, postindustrial technology, and the politics of pos…
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- 9781552386668
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- 821
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine.
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- 9781783740840
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- 821
Father of Persian Verse Rudaki and his Poetry
This book presents Rudaki as the founder of a new poetic aesthetic, which was adopted by subsequent generations of Persian poets. Rudaki is credited with being the first to write in the ruba'i form; and many of the images we first encounter in Rudaki's lines have become staples of Persian poetry.
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- 9789087280925
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- -
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- -
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- 821
Liza's Monday and Other Poems
Published in 1986, Bettie Sellers's book of poems speaks for ordinary women whose lives have been confronted with unfortunate circumstances. Writing in a narrative and lyrical style, Sellers brings life to new stories and songs based on the downtrodden women she has encountered.
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- 9781469636542
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- 821
Love and its Critics
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
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- 9781783743506
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- 821
Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783740895
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- 821
The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, Volume 3: Poems of Rural Life in…
This is the third volume in a series that sets out to provide a phonemic transcript and an audio recording of each individual poem in Barnes’s three collections of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect.
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- Vol. 3
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- 9781925261585
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- -
- Series Title
- -
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- 821
The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, Volume 2: Poems of Rural Life i…
This is the second volume in a series that sets out to provide a phonemic transcript and an audio recording of each individual poem in Barnes’s three collections of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. Beginning with two poems that inspired Vaughan Williams to set them to music, and ending with a paean of praise for the poet’s native county, this second collection contains 105 poems o…
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- Vol. 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925261509
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 821
The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, Volume 1: Poems of Rural Life in…
This series, developed from Tom Burton’s groundbreaking study, William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (The Chaucer Studio Press, 2010), sets out to demonstrate for the first time what all of Barnes’s dialect poems would have sounded like in the pronunciation of his own time and place. Every poem is accompanied by a facing-page phonemic transcript and by an audio recording f…
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- Vol. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922064493
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 821
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