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Cosmopolitanism and translation investigations into the experience of the foreign

In Cosmopolitanism and Translation, Esperança Bielsa does just that by focussing on the lived experience of the cosmopolitan stranger, whether a traveller, migrant, refugee or homecomer. With reference to world literature, social theory and foreign news, she argues that this key figure of modernity...

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Main Author: Bielsa, Esperança 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxon, UK Routledge 2016
Series:Translation theories explored
Subjects:
Translating and interpreting > Social aspects
Cosmopolitanism > Social aspects
Visitors, Foreign > Social aspects
Language and culture > Social aspects
Literature, Modern > History and criticism
Sociolinguistics
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and TranslationPart 1. The StrangerChapter 2. Towards a Sociology of StrangerhoodChapter 3. Redefining the Stranger in a Cosmopolitan ContextPart 2. World LiteratureChapter 4. Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism, World Literature and TranslationChapter 5. Roberto Bolano's Reception in Spanish and EnglishPart 3. Social TheoryChapter 6. Translating SociologyChapter 7. Theodor W. Adorno's Homecoming Part 4. Foreign NewsChapter 8. A Cosmopolitan Perspective on News TranslationChapter 9. Tiziano Terzani's Asia

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