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Ennedi, Tales on stone. Rock art in the Ennedi massif

By: Roberta Simonis,Adriana Ravenna,Pier Paolo Rossi

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Ennedi, Tales on stone. Rock art in the Ennedi massif

By: Roberta Simonis,Adriana Ravenna,Pier Paolo Rossi

In the last few decades, a surprisingly large variety of subjects and styles of rock art have been brought to light in northern Chad by scholars and passionate travellers. In the Ennedi region, relatively recent painted scenes of daily life occur, but also earlier human figures and rare events such as a leopard hunt. However, what is really characteristic of this region are the galloping mounted horses and camels, painted in original styles. Interestingly, the DStretch® plugin to ImageJ© has recently made it possible to see that in some cases the visible paintings are superimposed on older, faint images, very different in style and barely discernible to the naked eye. In some cases, paintings in an archaic style are revealed where just blurry spots appear on rocks. Farther to the east on the Ennedi plateau, the Niola Doa groups of intricately decorated human figures stand out as a superlative example of Saharan art. The focus of the volume is the most significant art, blended into the spectactular landforms of the region. We can only imagine the Ennedi landscape at the time the artists were decorating the rock surfaces with their pictograms and petroglyphs, but it must have been a sensational sight.

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All’Insegna del Giglio

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8878148342

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9788878148345

Strange Cocktail

Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry

By: Adriana X. Jacobs

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Strange Cocktail

Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry

By: Adriana X. Jacobs

For centuries, poets have turned to translation for creative inspiration. Through and in translation, poets have introduced new poetic styles, languages, and forms into their own writing, sometimes changing the course of literary history in the process. Strange Cocktail is the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon in modern Hebrew literature of the late nineteenth century to the present day. Its chapters on Esther Raab, Leah Goldberg, Avot Yeshurun, and Harold Schimmel offer close readings that examine the distinct poetics of translation that emerge from reciprocal practices of writing and translating. Working in a minor literary vernacular, the translation strategies that these poets employed allowed them to create and participate in transnational and multilingual poetic networks. Strange Cocktail thereby advances a comparative and multilingual reframing of modern Hebrew literature that considers how canons change and are undone when translation occupies a central position—how lines of influence and affiliation are redrawn and literary historiographies are revised when the work of translation occupies the same status as an original text, when translating and writing go hand in hand.

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417

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University of Michigan Press

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047212403X

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9780472124039

From Jesus to his First Followers: Continuity and Discontinuity

Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

By: Adriana Destro,Mauro Pesce

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From Jesus to his First Followers: Continuity and Discontinuity

Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

By: Adriana Destro,Mauro Pesce

From Jesus to His First Followers examines to what extent early Christian groups were in continuity or discontinuity with respect to Jesus. Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce concentrate on the transformation of religious practices. Their anthropological-historical analysis focuses on the relations between discipleship and households, on the models of contact with the supernatural world, and on cohabitation among distinct religious groups. The book highlights how Matthew uses non-Jewish instruments of legitimation, John reformulates religious experiences through symbolized domestic slavery, Paul adopts a religious practice diffused in Roman-Hellenistic environments. The book reconstructs the map of early Christian groups in the Land of Israel and explains their divergences on the basis of an original theory of the local origin of Gospels’ information.

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341

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BRILL

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9004337660

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9789004337664

Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

By: Sara Laviosa,Adriana Pagano,Hannu Kemppanen,Meng Ji

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Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

By: Sara Laviosa,Adriana Pagano,Hannu Kemppanen,Meng Ji

This book presents the state-of-art research in ETS by illustrating useful corpus methodologies in the study of important translational genres such as political texts, literature and media translations. Empirical Translation Studies (ETS) represents one of the most exciting fields of research. It gives emphasis and priority to the exploration and identification of new textual and linguistic patterns in large amounts of translation data gathered in the form of translation data bases. A distinct feature of current ETS is the testing and development of useful quantitative methods in the study of translational corpora. In this book, Hannu Kemppanen explores the distribution of ideologically loaded keywords in early Finnish translation of Russian political genres which yielded insights into the complex political relation between Finland and Russia in the post-Soviet era. Adriana Pagano uses multivariate analysis in the study of a large-scale corpus of Brazilian fiction translations produced between 1930s-1950s which is known as the golden age of Latin American translation. The statistical analysis detected a number of translation strategies in Brazilian Portuguese fictional translations which point to deliberate efforts made by translators to re-frame original English texts within the Brazilian social and political context in the first three decades under investigation. Meng Ji uses exploratory statistical techniques in the study of recent Chinese media translation by focusing three important media genres, i.e. reportage, editorial and review. The statistical analysis effectively detected important variations among three news genres which are analysed in light of the social and communicative functions of these news genres in informing and mobilising the audience in specific periods of time in Mainland China.

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164

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Springer

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981101969X

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9789811019692

Encounters with Wild Children

Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature

By: Adriana S. Benzaquén

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Encounters with Wild Children

Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature

By: Adriana S. Benzaquén

Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited. Adriana Benzaquén explains why wild children continue to haunt and fascinate Western scientists and shows how the knowledge they have generated in different disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, pedagogy, linguistics, and sociology, has contributed to the shaping and reshaping of the modern understanding of "the child" and affected the social and institutional practices directed at all children in schools, welfare, mental health, and the law.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773580859

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9780773580855

Ennedi, Tales on stone. Rock art in the Ennedi massif

By: Roberta Simonis,Adriana Ravenna,Pier Paolo Rossi

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By: Roberta Simonis,Adriana Ravenna,Pier Paolo Rossi

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Ennedi, Tales on stone. Rock art in the Ennedi massif

Ennedi, Tales on stone. Rock art in the Ennedi massif

Strange Cocktail

Strange Cocktail

From Jesus to his First Followers: Continuity and Discontinuity

From Jesus to his First Followers: Continuity and Discontinuity

Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

Encounters with Wild Children

Encounters with Wild Children

Ennedi, Tales on stone. Rock art in the Ennedi massif

Ennedi, Tales on stone. Rock art in the Ennedi massif

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