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William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism: A Contextual Study and Annotated Edition of 'The Hurricane' (Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850 #3)
by Paul Cheshire William GilbertWilliam Gilbert, poet, theosophist and astrologer, published The Hurricane: A Theosophical and Western Eclogue in Bristol in 1796, while he was on intimate terms with key members of Bristol literary culture: Coleridge published an extract from The Hurricane in his radical periodical The Watchman; Robert Southey wrote of the poem’s ‘passages of exquisite Beauty’; and William Wordsworth praised and quoted a long passage from Gilbert’s poem in The Excursion. The Hurricane is a copiously annotated 450 line blank verse visionary poem set on the island of Antigua where, in 1763, Gilbert was born into a slave-owning Methodist family. The poem can be grouped with other apocalyptic poems of the 1790s—Blake’s Continental Prophecies, Coleridge's Religious Musings, Southey's Joan of Arc—all of which gave a spiritual interpretation to the dramatic political upheavals of their time. William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism presents the untold story of Gilbert’s progress from the radical occultist circles of 1790s London to his engagement with the first generation Romantics in Bristol. At the heart of the book is the first modern edition of The Hurricane, fully annotated to reveal the esoteric metaphysics at its core, followed by close interpretative analysis of this strange elusive poem.
Bug Club, Orange A: Chase in New York (PDF)
by Simon CheshireThis title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. In this Orange-A level Adventure Kids book: Ed and Lin fly to New York with their photographer father. They marvel at the sights but when they see a thief grab a handbag, they give chase. Lin manages to rescue the handbag only to discover that it is not a real theft.
Bug Club, Orange B, Adventure Kids: Escape in Egypt (PDF)
by Simon CheshireThis title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. On a trip to Egypt with their photographer father, Ed and Lin get visit the pyramids! Ed seems to know all about mummies but Lin remembers that she read a scary story about a mummy. The children are chased through the pyramid by a shadowy figure!
Rapid, Series 1, Stage 6, Set A: Code Breakers
by Simon CheshirePART-WORK: Missing images on pages 25, 28 and 29. The Case of the Coded Messages Some very spooky messages are appearing on computer screens at Hillside School. Harry and Kate go to investigate the strange goings-on ... Will they discover the truth? Codes and Messages Do you have any secrets? For hundreds of years people have written secret messages in code. Find out how to make up a code of your own! Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK's most comprehensive reading intervention programme. The books and unique speech-recognition software are guaranteed to motivate children with SEN and struggling readers at Key Stage 2 (1st/2nd Level)
Rapid, Series 1, Stage 6, Set A: Mystery in the Skies
by Simon CheshireUFOs Have you ever seen a flying saucer? People have reported seeing many strange UFOs ... Do you think the stories are true? Read on, and make up your mind! The Case of the UFO Pictures Josh says he has seen a UFO ... and he has photos to prove it! Harry and Kate go to investigate ... What will they discover? Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK's most comprehensive reading intervention programme. The books and unique speech-recognition software are guaranteed to motivate children with SEN and struggling readers at Key Stage 2 (1st/2nd Level)
Rapid, Series 1, Stage 6, Set A: Ghostly
by Simon CheshireGhosts Have you ever seen a ghost? Read some famous and very scary ghost stories! The Case of the Schoolboy Ghost When Harry and Kate read about a fire at a school, they go to investigate! One girl says she was rescued by a mysterious boy ... but who is this boy and where is he now? Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK's most comprehensive reading intervention programme. The books and unique speech-recognition software are guaranteed to motivate children with SEN and struggling readers at Key Stage 2 (1st/2nd Level)
Rapid, Series 2, Stage 3, Set A: Mighty Machines
by Simon CheshireWhat Do Machines Do For Us? Machines help us in lots of ways. Some make cars, some build homes, and some drill holes in our teeth! Find out about what 'mighty machines' can do for us! Kirk and the Jet-Pack When Space Base sends Kirk and Joe a Jet-Pack, they plan to use it against their enemy, Zorgon. But maybe that's not a good idea ... Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK's most comprehensive reading intervention programme. The books and unique speech-recognition software are guaranteed to motivate children with SEN and struggling readers at Key Stage 2 (1st/2nd Level)
Rapid, Series 2, Stage 3, Set A: Testing Times
by Simon CheshireKirk and the Time Machine When Space Base sends Kirk and Joe a Time Machine that can send things back in time, they decide to use it on Zorgon. But things don't go to plan ... Back in Time Do you like school? Would you like to go back in time and go to school 50 years ago? Find out what classrooms, lessons and dinners were like then! Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK's most comprehensive reading intervention programme. The books and unique speech-recognition software are guaranteed to motivate children with SEN and struggling readers at Key Stage 2 (1st/2nd Level)
Rapid, Series 2, Stage 3, Set A: Space Junk!
by Simon CheshirePART-WORK: Missing images on pages 4 and 5. Waste in Space! What on Earth is Space junk? There's a lot of it floating in Space and it can damage spacecraft. Read about different Space junk, and what happens to it. Kirk and the Space Vac When Space Base sends Kirk and Joe a Space Vac that can suck up waste in Space, they plan to suck up Zorgon and the Big Blob. But Joe gets things a bit wrong ... Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK's most comprehensive reading intervention programme. The books and unique speech-recognition software are guaranteed to motivate children with SEN and struggling readers at Key Stage 2 (1st/2nd Level)
SuperScripts: Space Raiders (PDF)
by Simon CheshireThe 'SuperScripts' series will help ensure a supportive reading experience for struggling readers. The books have a reading age of six to seven, but are written to appeal to boys and girls from nine to 13 years and over.
SuperScripts: The Cave of Death (PDF)
by Simon CheshireSuperscripts is a series of six-part plays for less able readers. Each play features four bite-sized scenes, written for 10 to 15 minute reading sessions. All the parts are written for pupils at reading level 6 to 7 years, and there are six parts per play allowing teachers to engage a reading group of up to six.
SuperScripts: Revenge! (PDF)
by Simon CheshireSuperscripts is a series of six-part plays for less able readers. Each play features four bite-sized scenes, written for 10 to 15 minute reading sessions. All the parts are written for pupils at reading level 6 to 7 years, and there are six parts per play allowing teachers to engage a reading group of up to six.
Classical Literature and Posthumanism
by Giulia Maria Chesi Francesca SpiegelThe subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks what classical learning can bring to the table of posthuman studies, assembling chapters that explore how exactly the human self of Greek and Latin literature understands its own relation to animals, monsters, objects, cyborgs and robotic devices. With its widely diverse habitat of heterogeneous bodies, minds, and selves, classical literature again and again blurs the boundaries between the human and the non-human; not to equate and confound the human with its other, but playfully to highlight difference and hybridity, as an invitation to appraise the animal, monstrous or mechanical/machinic parts lodged within humans. This comprehensive collection unites contributors from across the globe, each delving into a different classical text or narrative and its configuration of human subjectivity-how human selves relate to other entities around them. For students and scholars of classical literature and the posthuman, this book is a first point of reference.
Classical Literature and Posthumanism
by Giulia Maria Chesi Francesca SpiegelThe subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks what classical learning can bring to the table of posthuman studies, assembling chapters that explore how exactly the human self of Greek and Latin literature understands its own relation to animals, monsters, objects, cyborgs and robotic devices. With its widely diverse habitat of heterogeneous bodies, minds, and selves, classical literature again and again blurs the boundaries between the human and the non-human; not to equate and confound the human with its other, but playfully to highlight difference and hybridity, as an invitation to appraise the animal, monstrous or mechanical/machinic parts lodged within humans. This comprehensive collection unites contributors from across the globe, each delving into a different classical text or narrative and its configuration of human subjectivity-how human selves relate to other entities around them. For students and scholars of classical literature and the posthuman, this book is a first point of reference.
Russian-Speakers in Post-Soviet Latvia: Discursive Identity Strategies (Russian Language and Society)
by Ammon CheskinThe political shocks of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis have been felt in many former Soviet countries, not least Latvia, where over 35 per cent of the population are native Russian speakers. At a time when analysts and commentators are unsure about Russia’s future plans to intervene on behalf of their ‘compatriots’, this study provides a detailed political and cultural analysis of Russian-speaking identity in Latvia. By using Russian-speakers in Latvia as a specific case study, this volume also offers a fresh methodological approach to the study of discourses and discursive strategies. It outlines a coherent methodology to study the evolution of discourses over time, rather than a single de-contextualised and static time period. Drawing on media analysis, elite interviews, focus groups and survey data, this volume situates the identity strategies of Russian speakers within the transformations of the post-Soviet era. By assessing political, cultural and economic links with their home state (Latvia) and their potential kin-state (Russia), it offers important insights into the complex identity positions of Latvia’s Russian speakers, and how these positions have evolved in Latvia since the late Soviet period. At a historical moment when many will question the loyalty of Russian speakers to their various ‘host states’, this book provides a timely, scholarly account of ethnic politics in Latvia. It also offers a methodological framework that allows for the mapping of trends in discursive strategies, exploring how they evolve through time.
Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by Simone ChessThis volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. The author argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. Further, she argues that these relational representations show that the crossdresser and his/her allies often benefit financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation, a corrective to the dominant idea that queer gender has always been associated with shame, containment, and correction. By attending to these relational and beneficial representations of MTF crossdressers in early modern literature, the volume helps to make a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied and queer-feminine representations in our conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.
Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by Simone ChessThis volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. The author argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. Further, she argues that these relational representations show that the crossdresser and his/her allies often benefit financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation, a corrective to the dominant idea that queer gender has always been associated with shame, containment, and correction. By attending to these relational and beneficial representations of MTF crossdressers in early modern literature, the volume helps to make a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied and queer-feminine representations in our conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.
Can Theory Help Translators?: A Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface (Translation Theories Explored #Vol. 9)
by Andrew Chesterman Emma WagnerCan Theory Help Translators? is a dialogue between a theoretical scholar and a professional translator, about the usefulness (if any) of translation theory. The authors argue about the problem of the translator's identity, the history of the translator's role, the translator's visibility, translation types and strategies, translation quality, ethics and translation aids.
Can Theory Help Translators?: A Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface (Translation Theories Explored)
by Andrew Chesterman Emma WagnerCan Theory Help Translators? is a dialogue between a theoretical scholar and a professional translator, about the usefulness (if any) of translation theory. The authors argue about the problem of the translator's identity, the history of the translator's role, the translator's visibility, translation types and strategies, translation quality, ethics and translation aids.
Parts of Speech in Mandarin: The State of the Art (Springerbriefs In Linguistics Ser. #0)
by Candice Chi-Hang CheungThis book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin. Seeking to identify the sets of universal and language-specific categories, it compares the range of categories available in Mandarin and the Indo-European languages and establishes six universal categories – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions – and three language-specific ones, namely classifiers, localizers and sentence-final particles. Incorporating insights from recent research findings and the diachronic development of the language, the book sheds new light on the factors that contribute to the long-standing debate on the categorical status of adjectives, prepositions and localizers in the extant literature. Bringing together the earlier general descriptions and the latest advances, it is broadly accessible to non-native and native speakers of the language and offers an ideal reference source for all students and scholars who are interested in studying the parts of speech in Mandarin.
Media Literacy Education in China
by Chi-Kim CheungThe Chinese government has long kept tight control on both traditional and new media to prevent potential challenges to its authority. But, for better or worse, China has now reached a stage where it is difficult to exercise political hegemony through laws and regulations and the control of the mass media. China has become a global superpower and in 2011 surpassed Japan as the world’s second largest economy, second only to the USA. China’s entertainment industry is also flourishing, and the market is large enough to attract foreign investors that either view China as an important market or are interested in Chinese capital. Today, more children in China watch television than in any other country in the world, and Internet usage is also increasing, making the implementation of media literacy education an important issue. This book presents the prevailing perspectives on media literacy education in China and describes how the current curriculum reform for implementing media literacy education is being developed. It will not only stimulate debate and further research, but will also influence policy decisions regarding media literacy education in China.
Corpora in Interpreting Studies: East Asian Perspectives (Routledge Studies in East Asian Interpreting)
by Cheung, Edited by Andrew K. FCheung, Liu, Moratto, and their contributors examine how corpora can be effectively harnessed to benefit interpreting practice and research in East Asian settings. In comparison to the achievements made in the field of corpus- based translation studies, the use of corpora in interpreting is not comparable in terms of scope, methods, and agenda. One of the predicaments that hampers this line of inquiry is the lack of systematic corpora to document spoken language. This issue is even more pronounced when dealing with East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which are typologically different from European languages. As language plays a pivotal role in interpreting research, the use of corpora in interpreting within East Asian contexts has its own distinct characteristics as well as methodological constraints and concerns. However, it also generates new insights and findings that can significantly advance this research field. A valuable resource for scholars of scholars focusing on corpus interpreting, particularly those dealing with East Asian languages.
Chinese American Literature without Borders: Gender, Genre, and Form
by King-Kok CheungThis book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a new transnational exchange by examining both Chinese and Chinese American writers. Part 1 presents alternative forms of masculinity that transcend conventional associations of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in light of the Chinese dyadic ideal of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), while redefining both in the process. Part 2 highlights the writers’ formal innovations by presenting alternative autobiography, theory, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung puts in relief the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical critiques. The writers examined provide a reflexive lens through which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the “other” country and to look homeward without blinders.
An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation (Volume 2): From the Late Twelfth Century to 1800
by Martha CheungTranslation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters, Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and even ministers and emperors have all written about translation, and from an amazing array of perspectives. This second volume of the seminal two-volume anthology spans the 13th century CE to the very beginning of the nineteenth century with an entry dated circa 1800. It deals mainly with the transmission of Western learning to China – a translation venture that changed the epistemological horizon and even the mindset of Chinese people. Also included are texts that address translation between Chinese and the languages of China's Central Asian neighbours, such as Manchu, which was to become of crucial importance in the Qing Dynasty. Comprising 28 passages, most of which are translated into English for the first time here, the anthology is the first major source book of its kind to appear in English. It features valuable primary material, and is essential reading for postgraduate students and researchers working in the areas of Translation, Translation Studies and Asian Studies.