Rights Catalogue Spring 2022
Linguistics
Mirella Agorni
Translating Italy for the Nineteenth Century Translators and an Imagined Nation in the Early Romantic Period 1816-1830s In 1816, the publication in Italian of Madame de Staël’s essay “On the Spirits of Translation” marked the beginning of a controversy between classicists and romantics. The theoretical principles and practices of translation received special attention in Italy, a territory that was trying to define itself in terms of culture, given the impossibility of a unitary political project in this historical period. Translation became the means of enriching Italian language, culture and literature. A Translation Studies perspective focusing on the foreign, rather than the indigenous, traits of Italian culture, will demonstrate how difference, via translation, became one of the constitutive elements of new definitions of Italian national identity. Mirella Agorni holds a PhD in translation studies from the University of Warwick (GB) and teaches applied translation and translation theory at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her research interests are mainly focused on translation history, translation theory, pedagogy and ESP.
Bern, 2021. 182 pp. Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication. Vol. 288 hb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-3612-3 CHF 54.– / €D 45.95 / €A 47.20 / € 43.– / £ 35.– / US-$ 51.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-0343-3621-5 CHF 54.– / €D 45.95 / €A 47.30 / € 43.– / £ 35.– / US-$ 51.95 Monographs, English
Helen Davitt
Class Talk Communications Unbound A mini source-book on the roots and prevailing features of the contemporary capitalist political economy, Class Talk – Communications Unbound outlines the alternative of economically viable, politically robust and socio-culturally inclusive democratic socialism fit for the 21st Century and beyond. Tracing politico-economic and socio-cultural exploitative behaviours to historical antecedents of feudalism, slavery and colonialism, it defines the age of capitalism, examines the dismantling of the Post-Second World War politicoeconomic consensus, outlines shareholder control of the corporate, banking and communications systems and details the global privatization of public services and the worldwide burgeoning of commercial rentierism. The book makes visible the web of connections between matters of immense public concern: climate catastrophe and capitalist profiteering, foreign policy and terrorism, the housing crises and the global banking cartel, education systems and politico-economic divisiveness. It signposts the discussions, debates, solidarity and organisational activism in which the poor and workingclass majority must engage if societies are to be built and maintained for the common good. Oxford, 2020. XX, 360 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-1-78997-590-1 CHF 31.– / €D 25.95 / €A 26.– / € 24.70 / £ 20.– / US-$ 30.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-1-78997-591-8 CHF 31.– / €D 25.95 / €A 26.– / € 24.70 / £ 20.– / US-$ 30.95 Monographs, English
Born in Glasgow, Helen Davitt left school at fifteen; emigrated at seventeen to California where she worked as head cashier in a loan company and was sacked for refusing to sell dud car insurances on car loans. She returned to the UK, worked full time and did a degree at Birkbeck College, University of London for four nights a week over four years. She taught in inner-city schools, worked as a schools’ inspector and then as a civilian education officer for the schools abroad for UK servicemen and women.
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