£70.99
£70.99
One of the most influential 16th-century German texts, Georg Wickram’s Rollwagenbüchlein (1555) is a collection of exciting, horrifying, and didactic tales. Despite its importance, it has never been translated into English—until now. This book offers the first translation.
Since the invention of the printing press in ca. 1450, the early modern book market emerged, and so also the phenomenon of the bestseller. The sixteenth century witnessed especially the rise of Schwankbücher (books with jest narratives), and one of the most influential examples was Georg Wickram’s Rollwagenbüchlein (1555), a collection of facetious, exciting, horrifying, dramatic, foolish, and also didactic short prose tales reflecting on the ordinary lives of people primarily in the countryside and cities. Wickram drew from a range of literary sources, and his work in turn became the inspiration for many other literary collections (Montanus, Kirchhof, Frey, etc.). Although the Rollwagenbüchlein can easily be identified as one of the most influential sixteenth-century texts in the history of German literature, it has never been translated into any other language. The current book offers a biographical and interpretive sketch, the translation into English, and an extensive scholarly apparatus with linguistic, historical, cultural, and literary explanations.
This guide provides the theoretical knowledge and empirical tools for Discourse Analysis. Conceived as a university course, it is useful for anyone who wants to acquire the skills to analyze any type of discourse, from medical to computer-mediated.
This book reflects achievements in the growing field of English as a lingua franca (ELF). It presents empirical findings from leading scholars, providing substance to arguments by analyzing authentic language in conversational, academic, and business situations.
ELT ignores a vital question: how do people learn languages? This book critiques an industry driven by profit, not pedagogy, and reveals how we can recenter teaching for the benefit of learners and teachers.
An essential coursebook for Arab students of translation. It combines discussion with practical exercises and examples tuned for beginners, making it ideal for undergraduates.
This volume explores the convergence of Cognitive Linguistics and critical discourse analysis. It addresses socio-political discourses on nation, immigration, and war, and is of value to anyone interested in the interaction between language, mind, and society.
Born at Versailles in 1919, conference interpreters made modern diplomacy possible. This volume celebrates one century of this exceptional profession, exploring its milestones and future post-pandemic through a candid discussion with practitioners, researchers, and trainers.
This book uses linguistic analysis to explore translating for the stage and screen. It reveals how meaning is made when adapting works by authors like Shakespeare, Wilde, and Austen for Greek audiences in the 20th century.
A step-by-step guide to writing a PhD dissertation for students in the Social Sciences. This book offers helpful guidelines, exercises, and pointers to successfully navigate the entire writing process, from conceptualization and literature review to the final conclusion.
This wide-ranging collection brings together essays on a recent approach to translation known as transcreation, which has challenged the traditional structure of the translation market and the agency and ethics of the discipline, and encouraged new research in translation studies
This volume explores translation’s role in political communication and news reporting, bringing to light the invisible link between politics, media, and translation. It offers a new disciplinary view from Translation Studies on political discourse.
Long-ignored Nobel nominee Werner Bergengruen is reintroduced in this selection of his best short stories. From learning to smile at death in “Death from Reval” to tales of honor, love, and power, his works offer timeless messages couched in rich historical settings.
In the Theresienstadt camp, nurse Resi Weglein tended to the dying while fighting for her own life. Her astounding memoir is a rare eyewitness testimony to the Holocaust and a powerful testament to preserving one’s humanity in the face of unimaginable horror.
In 1522, Johannes Pauli published the influential bestseller *Schimpf und Ernst*. These entertaining narratives offer teachings on human foolishness, virtues, and vices. This translation makes the majority of these tales available for the first time in the English language.
This book provides the first English translation of Ulrich Bonerius’s The Gemstone, a popular 14th-century collection of fables. Through didactic animal tales in the Aesopian tradition, Bonerius instructs his audience on vices and virtues, warning of human shortcomings.
This English translation of Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart allows those without knowledge of Middle High German to gain insights into an important medieval literary discourse. Von Ems’s work includes examples of medieval multilingualism, tolerance, and multiculturality.
