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Both comparative criticism and translation cross borders, yet
borders that have been crossed still exist. Even a border that has
been dismantled is likely to reappear in a different place, or as a
less obvious set of limiting practices: migrant texts and migrant
ideas, like migrant people, may not achieve full citizenship in
their new locations. Of course, there is a creative aspect to
borders too, as postcolonial theory in particular has emphasized.
Borders are contact zones, generators of hybridity, spaces of
exchange, cross-fertilization, and enrichment. For all these
reasons, borders require minding - thinking about, managing, even
in a sense policing. Rather than celebrating the crossing of
borders, or dreaming of their abolition, Minding Borders traces
their troubling and yet generative resilience. It explores how
borders define as well as exclude, protect as well as violate, and
nurture some identities while negating others. The contributors
range comparatively across geography, politics, cultural
circulation, creativity, and the structuration of academic
disciplines, hoping that the analysis of borders in one domain may
illuminate their workings in another. Whatever other form a border
takes it is always also a border in the mind.
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Lost Words (Paperback)
Nicola Gardini; Translated by Michael F Moore
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R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the
working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each
other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable
thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the
building, the world contained within these walls is tiny,
hypocritical, and mean-spirited: a constant struggle. Chino finds
escape in reading.One day, a new resident, Amelia Lynd, moves in
and quickly becomes an unlikely companion and a formative influence
on Chino. Ms. Lynd-an elderly, erudite British woman-comes to
nurture his taste in literature, introduces him to the life of the
mind, and offers a counterpoint to the only version of reality that
he's known. On one level, Lost Words is an engrossing coming-of-age
tale set in the seventies, when Italy was going through tumultuous
social changes, and on another, it is a powerful meditation on
language, literature, and culture.
Virgil gave us the Aeneid, and Ovid the Metamorphoses; Lucretius
analysed the material world and Caesar interrogated how we view reality
through the lens of reason - but what does Latin offer us today?
Often seen as the bulky relic of school curricula long forgotten, Latin
seems to have lost its punch in the popular conscious. Oxford academic
Nicola Gardini, however, argues the case for its lasting importance,
offering a personal and passionate defence of the beauty and future of
the language. From these ancient writers, we can learn about such vital
aspects of life as love, purpose, eloquence, beauty and loss. These
lessons from the past can illuminate our present, and Gardini
encourages us to dig to the roots of our own language to consider how
Latin has influenced the ways in which we communicate, think and live
today.
A formidable mix of history, memoir and criticism, this is a beautiful
love letter to one language that ultimately celebrates the vital power
of all literature.
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