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Intralingual translation of British novels : a multimodal stylistic perspective
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ISBN: 9781350233195 Year: 2022 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic,

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Building on an upsurge of interest in the Americanisation of British novels triggered by the Harry Potter series, this book explores the various ways that British novels, from children's fiction to travelogues and Book Prize winners, have been adapted and rewritten for the US market. Drawing on a vast corpus of over 80 works and integrating the latest research in multimodality and stylistics, Linda Pillière analyses the modifications introduced to make British English texts more culturally acceptable and accessible to the American English reader. From paratextual differences in cover, illustrations, typeface and footnotes to dialectal changes to lexis, tense, syntax and punctuation, Pillière explores the sociocultural and ideological pressures involved in intralingual translation and shows how the stylistic effects of such changes – including loss of meaning, voice, rhythm and word play – often result in a more muted American edition. In doing so, she reveals how homing in on numerous small adjustments can provide fascinating insights into the American publishing process and readership.


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Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies
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ISBN: 3110393417 3110376733 9783110376746 3110376741 9783110393415 9783110376739 9783110376371 3110376377 9783110393415 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Transatlantic literary studies have provided important new perspectives on North American, British and Irish literature. They have led to a revision of literary history and the idea of a national literature. They have changed the perception of the Anglo-American literary market and its many processes of transatlantic production, distribution, reception and criticism. Rather than dwelling on comparisons or engaging with the notion of 'influence,' transatlantic literary studies seek to understand North American, British and Irish literature as linked with each other by virtue of multi-layered historical and cultural ties and pay special attention to the many refractions and mutual interferences that have characterized these traditions since colonial times. This handbook brings together articles that summarize some of the crucial transatlantic concepts, debates and topics. The contributions contained in this volume examine periods in literary and cultural history, literary movements, individual authors as well as genres from a transatlantic perspective, combining theoretical insight with textual analysis.


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Love-hate relations : a study of Anglo-American sensibilities
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ISBN: 0241021006 0241890527 9780241021002 9780241890523 Year: 1974 Publisher: London Hamilton

Confluences : postcolonialism, African American literary studies, and the Black Atlantic
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ISBN: 0820326038 Year: 2005 Publisher: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press,

Transatlantic literary studies : a reader
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ISBN: 9780748622863 0748622861 074862287X 9780748622870 147447067X Year: 2007 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This title is intended for upper level undergraduates, MA students and lecturers in American Studies and Literary Studies.This is the first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies.This Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area.In a substantial Introduction to the volume, leading experts, Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor suggest ways in which the transatlantic model can be most effectively used within literary studies. The readings that follow are organised around key ideas - the nation and cosmopolitanism, theories and practice of comparative literature, postcolonialism/imperialism, translation, style and genre, and travel - and provide accessible, annotated examples that demonstrate the different possibilities of comparative analysis. The book represents and promotes an understanding of British, European and American literary culture within a broader framework of transatlantic activity.This title defines the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies as taught in English and American Studies departments. It includes important readings from key critics including J. Hillis Miller, Paul Giles, Edward Said and Paul Gilroy. It provides a full introduction and section headnotes that contextualise the field. It presents material that explores transatlantic encounters from the early modern period to the present day.

Forked tongues ? : comparing twentieth-century British and American literature
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ISBN: 0582075556 0582075548 Year: 1994 Publisher: White Plains (NY) : Longman,

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