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In the midst of a heated battle during the vietnam war, peter jackson falls into A strange new adventure, where time is just another dimension... After dangling precariously from the end of a rope, Peter Jackson, on tour in Vietnam, falls through the air during a failed extraction, legs flailing madly. In the thick of battle at the time, his next, and not so unpleasant recollection is that of falling not to the dark jungle many feet below, but...

Translation has played a vital part in the history of literature throughout the English-speaking world. Offering for the first time a comprehensive view of this phenomenon, this pioneering five-volume work casts a vivid new light on the history of English literature. Incorporating critical discussion of translations, it explores the changing nature and function of translation and the social and intellectual milieu of the translators.

Bretagne, um 1170: Der ehrbare Ritter Bisclavret verschwindet sehr zum Ärger seiner Ehefrau jede Woche für drei Tage, ohne jemanden von seinem Verbleib in Kenntnis zu setzen. Als die Gattin erfährt, dass er sich in dieser Zeit in einen Werwolf verwandelt, sorgt sie durch eine List dafür, dass er nicht zurückkehren kann, und beginnt ein neues Leben. Der Werwolf sucht Zuflucht bei seinem Lehnsherrn und sinnt auf Rache ...

This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literatures of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history ...

Why biography? This collection of essays on the problems and functions of biography, and particularly the biography of writers, thinkers and artists, investigates a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture and society. In the last century, it has been a controversial subject, as old models of biographical writing were attacked and superseded, while critics and theorists questioned the once self-evident value of the biogra...

A 1992 study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia.

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Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem The Twelve has claims to being the first great poem of the Russian Revolution. It remains enigmatic, the language elevated, the tone celebratory, even mystical. Mayakovsky, bringing Revolution into the very language and form of his poetry, wrote against Blok ...

In 937, a monumental battle took place, uniting England under a single king for the first time, it was the greatest single battle in Anglo-Saxon history before the Battle of Hastings. Peter France tells the story from the build-up to the aftermath, demonstrating its vital importance, and showcasing new evidence relating to the battle's location.

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is best known to Anglophone readers as the author of A Hero of Our Time, whereas among Russian readers his poetry is equally cherished. Lermontov was of Scottish descent, and this bilingual volume celebrates his bicentenary with new translations by 14 translator-poets, mostly Scottish.

This is a study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia.

In den Werken der Marie de France wird ein «selbstbewusstes und eloquentes weibliches Ich» (Margarete Zimmermann) vernehmbar. Die Fabeln des Äsop, in denen Wolf und Lamm, Rabe und Fuchs ihre unverwechselbaren Züge gewinnen, hat sie lange vor Lafontaine ins Französische ihrer Zeit gebracht. Ihre Verserzählungen (Lais) werden von Märchenmotiven und -figuren verzaubert und sind zugleich literarische Form, die den Verhältnissen einen Spiegel vorhä...

A serious and detailed study of modern Russian poetry aimed at readers with little or no Russian.

<, div>, The tiny, arid Greek island of Patmos is one of the most sacred places in the Christian world, and a place of bewitching power, where people come for a brief summer visit and end up returning, year after year, for the rest of their lives. In A Place of Healing for the Soul, BBC commentator Peter France &, #8212, who arrived on the island a hardened skeptic &, #8212, tells how he came to change his life perspective. Learning ...

An introduction to Rousseau's Confessions.