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Clarissa on the Continent

2011-08-31 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2011-08-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Clarissa on the Continent by : Thomas O. Beebee

Download or read book Clarissa on the Continent written by Thomas O. Beebee. This book was released on 2011-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation—creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak—as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation of Clarissa by the novelist Antione François de Prévost and the German translation by the Göttingen Orientalist Johann David Michaelis, and in doing so he demonstrates that each translator found authority for his procedure within the text itself. Each translation is also examined in light of Richardson's other writings and placed in its literary and cultural context. This study uses translations in order to interpret Clarissa, to show how the basis for the novel's reception on the Continent was laid, and to explore the differences and interactions among three literary and cultural systems of the eighteenth century. The close examination of these two important translations enable the formulation of not only a theory of creative vs. preservative translation but also the interconnections between literary theory and translation theory. Beebee also looks at later translations of Clarissa as products of literary and historical change and at Prévostian strategies of the novel.

Clarissa - An Abridged Edition

2010-09-27 Fiction
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Release : 2010-09-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Clarissa - An Abridged Edition by : Samuel Richardson

Download or read book Clarissa - An Abridged Edition written by Samuel Richardson. This book was released on 2010-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic novel tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuous Clarissa Harlowe’s pursuit by the brilliant, unscrupulous rake Robert Lovelace. The epistolary structure allows Richardson to create layered and fully realized characters, as well as an intriguing uncertainty about the reliability of the various “narrators.” Clarissa emerges as a heroine at once rational and passionate, self-sacrificing and defiant, and her story has gripped readers since the novel’s first publication in 1747–48. This new abridgment is designed to retain the novel’s rich characterizations and relationships, and reproduces individual letters in their entirety whenever possible. This Broadview Edition provides a uniquely accessible entry point for readers, while retaining much of the powerful reading experience of the complete novel.

The Pen and the People

2011-03-31 History
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Release : 2011-03-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 854/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Pen and the People by : Susan Whyman

Download or read book The Pen and the People written by Susan Whyman. This book was released on 2011-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, The Pen and the People will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people. Based on over thirty-five previously unknown letter collections, it tells the stories of workers and the middling sort - a Yorkshire bridle maker, a female domestic servant, a Derbyshire wheelwright, an untrained woman writing poetry and short stories, as well as merchants and their families. Their ordinary backgrounds and extraordinary writings challenge accepted views that popular literacy was rare in England before 1800. This democratization of letter writing could never have occurred without the development of the Royal Mail. Drawing on new information gleaned from personal letters, Whyman reveals how the Post Office had altered the rhythms of daily life long before the nineteenth century. As the pen, the post, and the people became increasingly connected, so too were eighteenth-century society and culture slowly and subtly transformed.

The Clothes that Wear Us

1999 Design
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Release : 1999
Genre : Design
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Book Rating : 722/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Clothes that Wear Us by : Jessica Munns

Download or read book The Clothes that Wear Us written by Jessica Munns. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the collection, there is an emphasis on the ways in which clothing could function to appropriate, explore, subvert, and assert alternative identities and possibilities."--BOOK JACKET.

Four Girls in Europe

2009-12 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2009-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 588/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Four Girls in Europe by : Clarissa Sands Arnold

Download or read book Four Girls in Europe written by Clarissa Sands Arnold. This book was released on 2009-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To think we are really across the Atlantic and have but to look around to find ourselves hurrying to be off the Steamer onto the tug to be brought into Liverpool!" Clarissa Sands Arnold, October 27, 1900. So begins the Diary of a year in the life of one American young woman. The beginning of a journey of wonder as Four Girls and their two female chaperones tour England and the Continent, following the well traveled path of The European Grand Tour. They become part of the throngs of middle class and wealthy Americans trying to acquire some Old World polish while experiencing the ancient history and varied cultures not available back home. Clarissa's account chronicles the experiences and logistics of such a prolonged trip by six women traveling alone, without any male protection. It also serves as a fascinating glimpse into the political and social world of Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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