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Top papers from your news feed from the last week “More or Less on the Mark? Translating Harold Pinter’s The Dwarfs: A Novel” by Łukasz Borowiec Every work of literature imposes on translators the realization that the source text of a literary work possesses unique and distinctive artistic structures. As a consequence, they demand from a translator a “renewal” of his approach to the translated work every time the whole process of translation begins. This approach involves, among other things, a complex and multifaceted analysis of the source text. As Pinter’s novel The Dwarfs provides a very rich and enlightening ground for such analysis, I would like to present a selection of translation issues against the backdrop of a more... DownloadBookmark CALL FOR PAPERS -- 'Representation & Reality in the Medieval Church' by Jon-Mark Grussenmeyer Call to submit papers for 'Representation & Reality in the Medieval Church', the Second Annual Symposium on Medieval & Early Modern Studies at Rowan University, sponsored by Rowan and the University of Kent. See call for papers for more information or visit http://rumedievalsymposium.wix.com/medieval-symposium DownloadBookmark Speculating on (Self-)Projected Humility in the Memento Mori Memorials of the Late-Medieval English Social and Religious Elite (c1420-1558): carved cadavers and the power of the crafted image of the human likeness by Christina Welch This paper explores the 38 late-medieval Gothic (c1420-1558) English carved cadaver monuments of the religious elite and landed gentry in terms of self-projection and communication. Commissioned by the wealthy in life, but related firmly to contemporary after-life beliefs, they imaged those privileged enough to afford such an expensive memento mori memorial, as a naked and emaciated recently deceased cadaver, laid in their burial shroud with their modesty protected only by a strategically positioned hand, or piece of cloth that achieved the same end. These then are images that... DownloadBookmark “Robot Saints.” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 4, no. 1 (2015): 52-77. by Christopher Swift In the Middle Ages, articulating religious figures like wooden Deposition crucifixes and ambulatory saints were tools for devotion, techno-mythological objects that distilled the wonders of engineering and holiness. Robots are gestures toward immortality, created in the face of the undeniable fact and experience of the ongoing decay of our fleshy bodies. Both like and unlike human beings, robots and androids occupy a nebulous perceptual realm between life and death, animation and inanimation. Masahiro Mori called this in-between space the “uncanny valley.” In this essay I argue that unlike... DownloadBookmark Les déplacements d’une figure. La métaphore de la traduction et les théories postcoloniales by Fabrice Schurmans DownloadBookmark Share your papersUpload Your Papers