Japanese Fairy Tales

Japanese Fairy Tales
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1918
Genre: Fairy tales
ISBN:

A collection of 20 fairy tales from Japan including "Chin-Chin Kobakama," "The Serpent with Eight Heads," and "The Tea-Kettle."

The Lesser-Known Varieties of English

The Lesser-Known Varieties of English
Author: Daniel Schreier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-03-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139487418

This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that their analysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues in linguistic theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth, dialect typology and genetic classification, patterns of diffusion and transplantation and contact-induced language change. It also shows how close interwoven fields such as social history, contact linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics are in accounting for their formation and maintenance, providing a thorough description of the lesser-known varieties of English and their relevance for language spread and change.

Cuentos tradicionales de Japón

Cuentos tradicionales de Japón
Author: Varios autores
Publisher: Alianza Editorial
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8413628199

La presente antología -publicada ya en Alianza Editorial con el título El espíritu del agua- reúne treinta y dos cuentos tradicionales japoneses entre los cuales el lector encontrará, entre muchos otros, algunos tan inolvidables como el del pescador Urashima, el de la mujer de la nieve o el del gato vampiro de Nabeshima. Se descubren en ellos algunos de los temas clásicos del imaginario propio del país del Sol Naciente. Dado su carácter insular, es casi una constante resaltar su relación con el mar y con los animales, reales y ficticios, vinculados a este medio. También con los zorros y con los tejones, con los que siempre convivieron los japoneses, pero a los que nunca pudieron domesticar. Y, por supuesto, el fuego, lo fantástico, el mundo del más allá, las mujeres celestiales... y los finales tristes y melancólicos, debidos en parte a un ancestral culto estético hacia la belleza que perece, hacia lo que no es eterno.

Cuentos japoneses

Cuentos japoneses
Author: Karl Alberti
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2017-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1633396657

Este libro es una colección de 24 cuentos japoneses, de los cuales muchos nunca se han traducido con anterioridad. Karl Alberti (que tradujo los cuentos del japonés al alemán) publicó el libro original en Alemania.

Writing Across Cultures

Writing Across Cultures
Author: Angel Rama
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822352931

Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.

The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cosmica

The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cosmica
Author: José Vasconcelos
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1997-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801856556

In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, José Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity would prevail over the rationalism he saw as dominating the present age. In this new age, marriages would no longer be dictated by necessity or convenience, but by love and beauty; ethnic obstacles, already in the process of being broken down, especially in Latin America, would disappear altogether, giving birth to a fully mixed race, a "cosmic race," in which all the better qualities of each race would persist by the natural selection of love.

Bilingual

Bilingual
Author: François Grosjean
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0674056450

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism explores the many facets of life with two or more languages.

Pride Parades and LGBT Movements

Pride Parades and LGBT Movements
Author: Abby Peterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781315474052

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex movements and politics. Pride Parades and LGBT Movements contributes to a better understanding of LGBT protest dynamics through a comparative study of eleven Pride parades in seven European countries - Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK - and Mexico. Peterson, Wahlström and Wennerhag uncover the dynamics producing similarities and differences between Pride parades, using unique data from surveys of Pride participants and qualitative interviews with parade organizers and key LGBT activists. In addition to outlining the histories of Pride in the respective countries, the authors explore how the different political and cultural contexts influence: Who participates, in terms of socio-demographic characteristics and political orientations; what Pride parades mean for their participants; how participants were mobilized; how Pride organizers relate to allies and what strategies they employ for their performances of Pride. This book will be of interest to political scientists and sociologists with an interest in LGBT studies, social movements, comparative politics and political behavior and participation.

Central American English

Central American English
Author: John A. Holm
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1983
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3872762958

This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are based on phonetic transcriptions of speech acts in their social and linguistic context.