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  • Sinister Sequence

    by Michael Cronin, Geoffrey Household, Laurence Meynell, Dennis Wheatley, L. P. Hartley ...
    Sinister Sequence is an unusual detective story written collaboratively by several well-known British authors: Michael Cronin, Geoffrey Household, Laurence Meynell, Dennis Wheatley, and L. P. Hartley. Each writer contributed a different part of the story, creating a suspenseful sequence of mysterious events. The plot begins with the appearance of a strange and suspicious man whose behavior ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Irish Proust

    Cultural Crossings from Beckett to McGahern

    Edited by Max McGuinness, Michael Cronin ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust's influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work. Featuring contributions from eleven scholars of French and Irish studies, The Irish Proust reveals a surprising textual dimension of Proust's novel and traces the enduring legacy of his work throughout modern Irish letters.Proust's work, which was banned ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Irish Tourism

    Image, Culture and Identity

    Edited by Prof. Michael Cronin, Dr. Barbara O'Connor ...
    Series Book 1 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    For many years Ireland has been a popular tourist destination and tourism has been one of the most significant social, economic and cultural forces in Irish society. Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity engages with major national and international debates on contemporary tourism through cutting-edge research. The book explores the multi-faceted nature of this important phenomenon, drawing ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Eco-Travel

    Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Series series Elements in Travel Writing
    Human encounters with the natural world are inseparable from the history of travel. Nature, as fearsome obstacle, a wonder to behold or a source of therapeutic refuge, is bound up with the story of human mobility. Stories of this mobility give readers a sense of the diversity of the natural world, how they might interpret and respond to it and how human preoccupations are a help or a hindrance in ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Expanding World

    Towards a Politics of Microspection

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Are we really living in a shrinking world? Is it true that diversity is on the decline everywhere? Are we condemned to live on a planet without difference or hope? The Expanding World challenges the basic notion of a shrinking world in current debates around globalization and argues that it informs ways of thinking and doing which are deeply damaging to the emergence of a progressive politics. The ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Eco-Translation

    Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and sustainability of human societies, cultures and languages. In this timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the perspective of the Anthropocene, or the effect of humans on the global environment, has profound implications for the way translation is considered in the past, present and future. Starting with a deep history of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Speaking like a Spanish Cow: Cultural Errors in Translation

    by Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Stephanie Schwerter, Charles I. Armstrong, Paula Cifuentes-Férez, Ana Isabel Foulquié, Paul Grundy, Katja Grupp, Terence Holden, Costas Mantzalos0, Vicky Pericleous1, Jean-Charles Meunier2, Bentolhoda Nakhaei3, Chantal Schütz4, Marina Tsvetkova5, Angela Vaupel6, Marie Schröer8, Gundula Gwenn Hiller9 ...
    What is a cultural error? What causes it? What are the consequences of such an error? This volume enables the reader to identify cultural errors and to understand how they are produced. Sometimes they come about because of the gap between the source culture and the target culture, on other occasions they are the result of the cultural inadequacies of the translator, or perhaps the ambiguity arises ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Irish Drama in Poland

    Staging and Reception, 1900-2000

    by Barry Keane ...
    Irish Drama in Poland is the first book to broadly assess Irish drama’s impact on both Poland’s theatrical world and its cultural and literary heritage in the twentieth century. With a wide-ranging analysis – from Yeats, Synge, O’Casey and Behan, to Wilde, Shaw and Beckett – this engaging study explores the translation, production and reception of Irish plays in Poland. Barry Keane presents ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Unity in Diversity

    Recent Trends in Translation Studies

    Edited by Lynne Bowker, Michael Cronin, Dorothy Kenny, Jennifer Pearson ...
    Translation studies as a discipline has grown enormously in recent decades. Contributions to the discipline have come from a variety of fields, including machine translation, history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, terminology, signed language interpreting, screen translation, translation pedagogy, software localization and lexicography. There is evidently great diversity in translation ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Translation and Identity

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Michael Cronin looks at how translation has played a crucial role in shaping debates about identity, language and cultural survival in the past and in the present. He explores how everything from the impact of migration on the curricula for national literature courses, to the way in which nations wage war in the modern era is bound up with urgent questions of translation and identity. Examining ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Translation goes to the Movies

    by Michael Cronin ...
    This highly accessible introduction to translation theory, written by a leading author in the field, uses the genre of film to bring the main themes in translation to life. Through analyzing films as diverse as the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the Opera, The Star Wars Trilogies and Lost in Translation, the reader is encouraged to think about both issues and problems of translation as they are played ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Translation and Globalization

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Translation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the ways in which radical changes to the world economy have affected contemporary translation.The Internet, new technology, machine translation and the emergence of a worldwide, multi-million dollar ... Read more

    $79.99 USD