Novelistic Ruins: Textual Fragmentation and Contemporary British Literature

Transcultural Literature and Contemporary World Literature(s)

In her article "Transcultural Literature and Dagnino argues that within the emerging field of transcultural literary studies and despite the inevitable issues raised by categorization, we may classify transcultural literature domain of world literature(s). Dagnino presents transcultural perspective in the fields of proceeds by outlining the main conto respect to (im)migrant and postcolonial lit...

Comparative Literature as Textual Anthropology

In his article, "Comparative Literature as Textual Anthropology," Antony Tatlow proposes textual anthropology as a critic's approach in the comparative study of literature. If anthropology is "behavioural hermeneutics" (Clifford Geertz) with the implication of self-reflexivity, the anthropologist will be disposed to fashion in the object of attention what is neglected and that can therefore be ...

‏‎thematization strategies, textual authenticity, and comprehensibility‎‏

‏‎the investigation would certainly offer implications for translation, where the translators mostly adhere to only the ideational meaning of the sl text neglecting its textual meaning, a practice which mostly leads to target language texts which have lower readability(compared with their source language counterparts) due to their displaced thematization strategies.‎‏

Governance in the Ruins

Sibling configuration and childhood growth in contemporary British families.

BACKGROUND Life history theory and resource dilution models of the family suggest that siblings may present a threat to healthy development because they compete for resources that parents have available to invest in individual offspring. Using data from a large cohort study of contemporary British families (ALSPAC), we test this hypothesis using childhood growth trajectories as a biomarker for ...