Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice's Worlds

Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice's Worlds
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9783110871883
ISBN-13 : 3110871882
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice's Worlds by : Rachel Fordyce

The Book of Job in Wonderland

The Book of Job in Wonderland
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780197763674
ISBN-13 : 0197763677
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Job in Wonderland by : Ryan M Armstrong

The Book of Job in Wonderland explores the theme of mediation in the biblical book of Job with a unique approach that examines the Hebrew language, the history of its interpretation, and a comparative literary analysis of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Both of these classics relentlessly subvert genre expectations in order to protest didactic religious instruction. In addition to biblical studies, this book makes contributions to lexicography, hermeneutics, medieval Jewish thought, early and modern Christianity, literary theory, and Victorian literature.

Alice in Wonderland in Film and Popular Culture

Alice in Wonderland in Film and Popular Culture
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9783031022579
ISBN-13 : 3031022572
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Alice in Wonderland in Film and Popular Culture by : Antonio Sanna

This book examines the many reincarnations of Carroll’s texts, illuminating how the meaning of the original books has been re-negotiated through adaptations, appropriations, and transmediality. The volume is an edited collection of eighteen essays and is divided into three sections that examine the re-interpretations of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass in literature, film, and other media (including the branches of commerce, music videos, videogames, and madness studies). This collection is an addition to the existing work on Alice in Wonderland and its sequels, adaptations, and appropriations, and helps readers to have a more comprehensive view of the extent to which the Alice story world is vast and always growing.

Cognitive Semiotics

Cognitive Semiotics
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9781350143326
ISBN-13 : 1350143324
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Cognitive Semiotics by : Per Aage Brandt

Interrogating the relatively new field of cognitive semiotics, this book explores shared issues in cognitive science and semiotics. Building on research from recent decades, Per Aage Brandt investigates the potential of a cognitive semiotic approach to enhance our understanding of language, thought and semiosis in general. Introducing a critical, non-standard approach both to cognitive science and to semiotics, this book discusses the understanding of meaning and mind through four major dimensions; mental architecture, mental spaces, discourse coherence and eco-organization. Encompassing a rich variety of topics and debates, Cognitive Semiotics outlines several bridges between 'continental' and 'analytic' thinking in the study of semantics, pragmatics, discourse and the philosophy of language and mind.

The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books)

The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books)
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9780393048476
ISBN-13 : 0393048470
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books) by : Lewis Carroll

Presents an annotated version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass," including recently discovered John Tenniel illustrations and newly added Martin Gardner annotations.

Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions

Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9781000613216
ISBN-13 : 1000613216
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions by : Susan Petrilli

This edited volume explores emotion and its translations through the global world from a variety of different perspectives, as a personal, socio- cultural, ideological, ethical and political, even business investment in the latest phases of globalisation. Emotions are powerful in engaging or disengaging individuals, communities, the masses, peoples and nations with distinct linguistic and cultural backgrounds for good, but also for evil. All depends on how emotions are interpreted, that is, translated in “words” or in “facts”, in any case in “signs”. Semiotic reflection on emotions and their interpretation/translation is thus of essential importance. An adequate understanding of emotional phenomena and their complexities calls for different views which together reveal and illustrate inconsistencies in our modern life. The contributors argue that an investigation of types of emotional translation – linguistic and non- linguistic, audio-visual, theatrical, literary, racial, legal, architectural, political, and so forth – can contribute to a better understanding of emotions and how they are exploited to engender injustice, unfairness, absurdity in contemporary life. Nonetheless, emotions are also exploited and oriented – and this is the intent of our authors – to favour the development of sustainable multicultural societies and facilitate living together. A major reference for students and scholars in translation, semiotics, language and cultural studies around the world.

Alice in Transmedia Wonderland

Alice in Transmedia Wonderland
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9781476666686
ISBN-13 : 1476666687
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Alice in Transmedia Wonderland by : Anna Kérchy

Part of Alice's appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting Lewis Carroll's classic Wonderland stories to various media. Popular re-imaginings of Alice and her topsy-turvy world reveal many ways of eliciting enchantment and shaping make-believe. Late 20th century and 21st century adaptations interact with the source texts and with each other--providing readers with an elaborate fictional universe. This book fully explores today's multi-media journey to Wonderland.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780191571299
ISBN-13 : 0191571296
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by : Lewis Carroll

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, they are also complex textures of mathematical, linguistic, and philosophical jokes. Alice's encounters with the White Rabbit, the Cheshire-Cat, the King and Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and many other extraordinary characters have made them masterpieces of carefree nonsense, yet they also appeal to adults on a quite different level. Layers of satire, allusion, and symbolism about Victorian culture and politics, as well as revelations about the intricate subconscious problems of their author, add to their fascination and make them impossible to classify. This new edition explores the phenomenal range of reference, and the paradoxical appeal of two of the most inventive books in world literature. It also includes an episode removed by Carroll from the proofs of Through the Looking-Glass, called 'The Wasp in a Wig'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation

Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781351391986
ISBN-13 : 1351391984
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation by : Karen Bennett

This volume problematizes the concept and practice of translation in an interconnected world in which English, despite its hegemonic status, can no longer be considered a coherent unified entity but rather a mobile resource subject to various kinds of hybridization. Drawing upon recent work in the domains of translation studies, literary studies and (socio-)linguistics, it explores the centrality of translation as both a trope for the analysis of contemporary transcultural dynamics and as a concrete communication practice in the globalized world. The chapters range across many geographic realities and genres (including fiction, memoir, animated film and hip-hop), and deal with subjects as varied as self-translation, translational ethics and language change. As a whole, the book makes an important contribution to our understanding of how meanings are generated and relayed in a context of super-diversity, in which traditional understandings of language and translation can no longer be sustained.

Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature

Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9781461656159
ISBN-13 : 146165615X
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature by : Maria Nikolajeva

This work provides students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used to examine aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. Contemporary literary theories discussed include semiotics, hermeneutics, structuralism, narratology, psychoanalysis, reader-response, feminist, and postcolonial theory, each adjusted to suit the specifics of children's literature.