The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a"dying party" in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the...
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between th...
This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries. It will be of particular interest to practitioners, scholars and students of modern foreign languages, linguistics, literary and cultural studies, interdisciplinary humanities, visual arts, theatre and the performing arts.
This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries. It will be of particular interes...
