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Stylistic Approaches to Global Speculative Fiction

This edited book engages with key concerns in contemporary stylistics, including mind style, text-worlds, deixis, metaphor, immersion, and readerly effects, while also exploring intersections with narratology, translation studies, and multimodality. Moving beyond Anglo-American canons, it brings together scholars from across the globe to examine speculative fiction within diverse cultural contexts, genres, languages, and media. Adopting a broadly inclusive understanding of the term speculative fiction as encompassing narrative modes that depart from consensus reality, the volume shifts the emphasis from predominantly thematic approaches towards the linguistic artistry of such altered worlds and minds, while remaining attentive to ideological tensions embedded within such stories. Interest in speculative fiction, its narrative strategies, its movement across languages and cultures, and the stylistic choices that shape readerly experience, has grown considerably across disciplines such as stylistics, narratology, translation studies, telecinematic and media studies, literary criticism, and genre theory. This book offers a comprehensive resource for academics working within these and related fields.

1. Hiram L. Smith

Wassup, My Nigga

Hiram L. Smith is the Ruth Everett Sierzega Chair in Linguistics at Bucknell University. He published the first historical study of "nigga" and is the first African American linguist to write a book on the word. His research interests span African American English, Afro-Hispanic creole languages, Spanish, and Pennsylvania Dutch.

1. Theo Hermans

The World Within Reach

This book traces the history of translation in the Early Modern Low Countries (roughly the modern-day Netherlands and Belgium), from around 1550 to around 700. It focuses on the various roles played by translation in different contexts.

1. Jennifer Manoukian

Purist Pursuits

"Purist Pursuits is a groundbreaking study that opens Western Armenian to the methods of the social history of language. Jennifer Manoukian expertly recovers not only the ideologies that shaped the modern vernacular in its formative years, but also the lives of diverse actors who transformed their language into a vast and contentious battleground."—Michael Pifer, University of Michigan "Exciting, extensive, and fine-grained, this work on the development of Armenian situates language discussions in the context of a modernizing literary marketplace, as the Ottoman Empire was affected by Western ideas and new print media. Purist Pursuits shines new light on Armenian history and on nineteenth-century cultural nation-building."—Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam

Contents of Faith in Transfer

Languages in the Lutheran Reformation

This multi- and cross-lingual collection of articles charts the influence of the Lutheran Reformation on various Northern European languages and texts written in them. The primary texts explored in the essays are Bible translations, but genres other than biblical are also discussed.