Post-Lecture Forum With Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo,
2025
Exploding Galaxies
Post-Lecture Forum With Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, Mara Coson, Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Sixth Setouchi International Art Festival In Japan, Summer Session,
2025
Kingsborough Community College
Review Of The Sixth Setouchi International Art Festival In Japan, Summer Session, Midori Yamamura
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Storytelling In A Time Of Exigency,
2025
Ateneo de Manila University
Storytelling In A Time Of Exigency, Kaisa Aquino
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Benjamin’S Estranged Heim,
2025
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Benjamin’S Estranged Heim, Andrew Brooks
Living in Languages
This paper examines Walter Benjamin's engagement with the motif of Heim (home) as it interweaves with his intellectual and personal experiences during the early 1920s. Through an analysis of Benjamin’s writings and correspondence, including his plans for the journal Angelus Novus and reflections on his friendship with Fritz Heinle, the study explores Heim as both a real and rhetorical space. Initially conceived as an idealized site of intellectual and spiritual communion, Heim is transformed by personal tragedy and historical crisis into an unattainable, speculative ideal—a rhetorical atopos. This evolution parallels Benjamin’s philosophical pursuit of “pure language” and his reimagining …
Beyond Gaining And Losing: A Thematic Approach To The Translation Of Washington Square,
2025
Capital Normal University
Beyond Gaining And Losing: A Thematic Approach To The Translation Of Washington Square, Jin Li
Living in Languages
In putting a literary work into another language, the translator functions as a literary critic, whose task requires both language competence and critical perception. As Venuti writes, “A translation does not communicate the source text itself but the translator’s interpretation of it”. The translation, therefore, can be considered as another form of literary criticism, inspiring the reader to enrich the repertoire of the source text. A comparative reading of the source text against the translation engages the reader in processing three-fold interpretations, leading to a multifaceted communication among the source text, the translator and the reader. The reading of the …
“Two Friends” By Fadhy Mtanga, Translated By Jay Boss Rubin,
2025
University at Albany, State University of New York
“Two Friends” By Fadhy Mtanga, Translated By Jay Boss Rubin, Jay B. Rubin
Living in Languages
No abstract provided.
For The Love Of Subtitling: Analysing The Challenges In Audio-Visual Translations Of Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani,
2025
Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
For The Love Of Subtitling: Analysing The Challenges In Audio-Visual Translations Of Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani, Haritima Sharma
Living in Languages
Any form of audio-visual media utilises specific stylistic elements in order to represent the reality within which the media form is situated. These representations occur through the language and iconography of the media form, which works on stereotypical features that the audience can easily identify. Forming a pivotal part of the media, these representations must be rendered in the translations for a linguistically and culturally diverse audience. Audio-Visual Translation (AVT) has been used since the 1930s to make media accessible. Of the various modalities, subtitling has emerged as the most widespread mode of AVT due to time and cost benefits. …
Untangling Memories Of Violence: The Khipu In El Rincón De Los Muertos (Alfredo Pita),
2025
University at Albany, SUNY
Untangling Memories Of Violence: The Khipu In El Rincón De Los Muertos (Alfredo Pita), Jonathan J. Oliveri
Living in Languages
This research proposes a structural reading of El rincón de los muertos to decode and trace echoes to the khipu which are embedded throughout the novel. Contrary to a graphic writing system, the Incan empire’s khipu (khipu) was a mnemotechnic system—a three-dimensional communicative device, an archive of memory that recorded information using different colored strings, and a system of knots. Our concept of mnemonics is different than that of the indigenous communities who relied on oral tradition and specifically for khipu a khipukamayuq (reader of khipu), in a narrative and discursive manner, to reconstruct the message the khipu contained. …
Two Poems By Victoria Guerrero Peiranotwo Poems By Victoria Guerrero Peirano Translated By Ilka Kressner,
2025
University at Albany, State University of New York
Two Poems By Victoria Guerrero Peiranotwo Poems By Victoria Guerrero Peirano Translated By Ilka Kressner, Ilka Kressner
Living in Languages
Translation of the two poems "En la disco" and "Baile" by Victoria Guerrero Peirano into English and German.
Odesa Will Never Be A 'Russian' City Again,
2025
State University of New York-Albany
Odesa Will Never Be A 'Russian' City Again, Ian R. Singleton
Living in Languages
Russophone poet Galina Itskovich wrote the statement serving as the title of this text about the identity of her native Odesa, Ukraine in 2023, more than a year and a half after the full-scale invasion by Russia. I propose an examination of the relationship of contemporary Odesan writers to the Russian language. Sources for this examination include the work of writers in or from Odesa such as Galina Itskovich, Maria Galina, Oleg Fesenko, and Igor Bozhko. To discuss what this situation means for translation, such as is demanded by Ukraine’s 2019 law on the status of the Ukrainian language, I …
Between Languages And Religions: Omar Ibn Said's Voice In The Arabic Narrative And English Translations,
2025
University at Albany
Between Languages And Religions: Omar Ibn Said's Voice In The Arabic Narrative And English Translations, Rumi Coller-Takahashi
Living in Languages
The Life of Omar ibn Said (1831) is a narrative written by an enslaved person in Arabic and went through multiple English translations over the centuries. This article examines the ways in which these translations involve the nineteenth-century Christian agenda as well as the translators’ decisions in the twentieth-first century that multiply Omar ibn Said’s voice. In response to the recent scholarship’s effort to find Omar’s “true self” in his writings, which shows the meshing of Christian and Islamic faith, I aim to foreground his voice as a powerful presence at the intersections of the two languages and religions. My …
Introduction 2024,
2025
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Materiality Of Traumatic Experience And The Limits Of Representation In Hassan Bani Ameri’S Gonjeshkha Behesht Ra Mifahmand (Sparrows Understand Heaven),
2025
Emerson College
Materiality Of Traumatic Experience And The Limits Of Representation In Hassan Bani Ameri’S Gonjeshkha Behesht Ra Mifahmand (Sparrows Understand Heaven), Maryam Ghodrati
Emerson Authors, Researchers, & Creators
This paper examines the materialization of trauma as both a narrative and embodied phenomenon in Hassan Bani Ameri’s 2006 novel, Gonjeshkha Behesht ra Mifahmand, using contemporary narrative and trauma theory. The postmodernist narrative, told from the perspective of a photojournalist, reconstructs events surrounding the death of a celebrated Iran-Iraq War commander. I argue that traumatic truths resist full integration into conventional frameworks of understanding, evident in the novel’s non-linear, fragmented narrative and its shift from visual realism to confessional surrealism in an ending that challenges traditional storytelling and historical documentation. By vividly simulating the sensory processing of traumatic memories, the …
Chaucer’S Complaint To His Purse And Authority In The World,
2025
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chaucer’S Complaint To His Purse And Authority In The World, Paul A. Olson
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Chaucer’s Complaint to His Purse concerns more than the poet’s financial need under the new Lancastrian administration. It speaks to the limits of Henry IV’s royal authority and, through irony, to the limitations of Chaucer’s purse’s power. Underlining royal limits, Chaucer petitions the king as one who holds office through election and line but not con-quest, which is Henry’s position on his office as well. In speaking iron-ically of the purse’s authority, the poet addresses the gold that the mon-arch might grant him as if it constituted a human or divine patron, but he does so in a hierarchy of …
Heteropoesia: Basil Bunting’S Translation Of Obayd Zākānī’S Mush-O Gorbeh,
2025
Western University
Heteropoesia: Basil Bunting’S Translation Of Obayd Zākānī’S Mush-O Gorbeh, Emadeddin Naghipour
Languages and Cultures Publications
This article studies the role of ‘selving’ and creative interpretation in literary translation. Specifically, it analyzes one of Basil Bunting’s successful translations of Obayd Zākānī’s Mush-o Gorbeh, a picturesque and catchy poem in rhyme and rhythm, laden with animal characters, which was considered to be both a masterpiece of children’s literature and a very important political satire. Bunting, a translator of Persian classical poems into English, had both political and poetic missions as a spy and an up-and-coming poet. This study turns to the theories of translation by Steiner, Benjamin, and Bassnett, among others, to show the challenges of translating …
Full Issue,
2025
Brigham Young University
Centering Maternal Breastfeeding In The Old English Metrical Charm 6,
2025
Idaho State University
Centering Maternal Breastfeeding In The Old English Metrical Charm 6, Kierra E. Burns
Quidditas
This article examines female authority and self-determination in relation to maternal lactation during early medieval England. While breastfeeding has always been essential to infant survival, its cultural significance extends beyond nourishment alone, reflecting broader social values and assumptions about gender and motherhood. Within this context, early English texts reveal that lactating mothers were regarded as natural authorities in the processes of childbearing and nourishing their infants. Through analysis of historical and literary evidence, this article argues that maternal breastfeeding was viewed in inherently positive and empowering terms with maternal self-determination and authority at the heart of that positivity. The article …
Review: Balthazar: A Black African King In Medieval And Renaissance Art,
2025
University of New Mexico
Review: Balthazar: A Black African King In Medieval And Renaissance Art, Karli R. Snyder
Quidditas
Western European medieval and Early Modem art history is full of representations of ethnically diverse peoples. However, there are relatively few examples of scholarly publications that coherently organize these visual representations into a complete analysis of the topic. One recent publication that aims to do just that is Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art. The slim paperback boasts 121 full-color illustrations and features a collection of essays and narratives edited by museum curator Kristen Collins and art historian Bryan C. Keene. The book was published as a companion to the 2019 exhibition of the same …
Courtly Love: A Comparative Study,
2025
Wright State University
Courtly Love: A Comparative Study, Danya Larosa
2025 CoLA Student Showcase
Presented at the 2025 College of Liberal Arts Showcase, LaRosa dives into the medieval European concept of Courtly Love.
Review: Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time And Medieval Life,
2025
Independent Historian
Review: Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time And Medieval Life, Kaitlyn Garrett
Quidditas
In a topical addition to the Medieval Lives series, Adler and Strohm's Alie Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life provides an overview of the average medieval person's keeping of, value of, and relationship to time. Gillian Adler, Assistant Professor of Literature and Esther Raushenbush Chair in Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College, and Paul Strohm, professor emeritus at Columbia University, combine literary backgrounds to delve into both technical forms of timekeeping and abstract interpretations of time, including "timescapes" and philosophies of passing time and human aging. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme educates readers on technical forms of timekeeping as well as …
