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This collection offers a cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways
in which multilingual practices were embedded in early modern
European literary culture, opening up a dynamic dialogue between
contemporary multilingual practices and scholarly work on early
modern history and literature. The nine chapters draw on
translation studies, literary history, transnational literatures,
and contemporary sociolinguistic research to explore how
multilingual practices manifested themselves across different
social, cultural and institutional spaces. The exploration of a
diverse range of contexts allows for the opportunity to engage with
questions around how individual practices shape national and
transnational language practices and literatures, the impact of
multilingual practices on identity formation, and their
implications for creative innovations in bilingual and multilingual
texts. Taken as a whole, the collection paves the way for future
conversations on what early modern literary studies and present-day
multilingualism research might learn from one another and the
extent to which historical texts might supply precedents for
contemporary multilingual practices. This book will be of
particular interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics,
early modern studies in history and literature, and comparative
literature.
The aim of each volume of this series Guides to Information Sources
is to reduce the time which needs to be spent on patient searching
and to recommend the best starting point and sources most likely to
yield the desired information. The criteria for selection provide a
way into a subject to those new to the field and assists in
identifying major new or possibly unexplored sources to those who
already have some acquaintance with it. The series attempts to
achieve evaluation through a careful selection of sources and
through the comments provided on those sources.
This Dictionary is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to
students and readers of English literature today, thorough on the
essentials and generous in its intellectual scope. With terms as
wide-ranging in theme as 'emphasis', 'ekphrasis', 'ecocriticism'
and 'epithalamion' the definitions are always lively and precise in
equipping students and general readers with a genuinely useful
critical vocabulary. Above all, it directs readers to make full use
of terms, in navigating the confusing world of literary criticism
and discovering the concepts behind terms. It does this with the
help of fresh examples, literary timeline and up-to-date
bibliography (with recommended websites). Extensive
cross-referencing is linked to a thematic index that makes it
simple to find related terms (e.g. technical terms for repetition;
names for six- or seven-line stanzas) and is explicit about the
exact distinctions between such terms as 'metonym' and
'synecdoche', or 'couplet' and 'distich'. In addition to teaching
key terms, the Dictionary identifies the thinking and unresolved
controversies surrounding them, and offers fresh insights and
directions for future reading. It seeks to challenge as well as
complement the reader's own ideas about literature. It is a
Dictionary for the twenty-first century, both in its broad view of
literature in English and its emphasis on readers enjoying poetry,
prose and drama.
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