Degrees of Affinity : Studies in Comparative Literature and Translation / / by Zuoliang Wang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483921903321
• Autore: Wang Zuoliang
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-662-45475-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Collana: China Academic Library, , 2195-1853
• Disciplina: 895.109
• Soggetti: Comparative literature; Comparative Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Literary History: Chinese Beginnings -- The Shakespearean Moment in China -- English Poetry and the Chinese Reader -- On Affinity between Literatures -- Across Literatures: the Translation Boom -- Two early translators -- Lu Xun -- Lu Xun and Western Literature -- Chinese Modernists and Their Metamorphoses -- Modernist Poetry in China -- A Chinese Poet -- The Poet as Translator -- Some Observations on Verse Translation -- On Translating Joyce, Burns and Others -- Sean O’Casey in China -- Translation Standard in China: A Survey -- Reflections on a Dictionary.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th century, and which underscore the role of translation therein. Both collections have been previously published in book form: Degrees of Affinity—Studies in Comparative Literature (1985) and A Sense of Beginning—Studies in Literature and Translation (1991). As a prominent literary critic, literary historian, translator and 20th-century Chinese poet, Wang has played a unique part in English education in China. His research interests range widely, from English literature through comparative literature to translation and cultural studies, fields in which he has made outstanding accomplishments. Wang pioneered the concept of ; “affinity” in talking about interactions between literatures and peoples, which has since won great acclaim from both critics and common readers at home and abroad. As he points out, “momentous changes often occur when a foreign literature satisfies a sore need of an indigenous literature, thus developing a strong affinity...” And translation can fulfill a crucial role in bringing about affinity between literatures and peoples. According to Professor Wang, “Nothing is more crucial in cultural contacts, not to say cultural interactions, than translation, particularly in a country that for long periods closed its doors to the outside world, like China.”.

Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis : A Guide to Function, Cooking and Interpretation / / by Fernanda Neubauer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910874693303321
• Autore: Neubauer Fernanda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024
• ISBN: 9783031648243; 9783031648236
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2024.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 pages)
• Collana: Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique
• Disciplina: 552.06
• Soggetti: History; Archaeology; Anthropology; Anthropology - Research; Research Methods in Anthropology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Introduction to Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis -- Chapter 2. Understanding fire-cracked rock and background information -- Chapter 3. Determining Fire-Cracked Rock Function through Use-Alteration and Fracturing Patterns -- Chapter 4. Uses of Fire-Cracked Rock in Experimental Archaeology, Ethnography, and Ethnohistory -- Chapter 5. Fire-Cracked Rock as Archaeological Evidence of Cooking ; and Cuisine: Case Study from North America -- Chapter 6. Fire-Cracked Rock Technology and Life History: Reuse, Recycling, and Usage as Tools.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is the first manual book to address fire-cracked rock (FCR) or fire-affected rock analysis, thus filling a significant gap in the market and in the existing literature. This book develops a method and theory for how FCR was used, to familiarize readers with a new approach to FCR analysis. The book provides a history and background of fire-cracked rock and leads the reader through the entire process of identifying, categorizing, and analyzing FCR and related features, from the first steps through to interpretations of function, use-alteration, fracturing patterns, experimentation, ethnographic/ethnohistoric uses, and so forth. In addition to exploring the fundamentals of FCR analysis, the book will also cover new and cutting-edge techniques. This manual is designed to walk archaeologists from step one of FCR analysis to final advanced interpretations of use. It is meant to serve as a laboratory and field guide for students and professionals, containing illustrations, photographs, and case studies in order to familiarize readers with the identification and analysis process while also providing a theoretical and methodological guide for advance academic and cultural resource management research. Thus, this book is meant to target a wide global audience and spatiotemporal range, spanning hundreds of millennia of the human experience, from paleoanthropology and the early adoption of fire through to the present. Where FCR was once simply quantified according to weight and size, this book will transform it into a significant diagnostic artifact in the study of ancient foodways and domestic life. At sites where organic preservation is poor to non-existent, and the quotidian sphere is obscure, the use of FCR to determine cooking methods and everyday life will come as a breakthrough. This will be a pioneering manual for the study of FCR, focusing on the ways practicing archaeologists can infer function from their FCR collections.