Ricarda Vidal

Madeleine Campbell

This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries. Challenging Roman Jakobson’s seminal definitions, it examines how a poem may be expressed as dance, a short story as an olfactory experience, or a film as a painting. This emergent process opens up a myriad of synaesthetic possibilities for both translator and target audience to experience form and sense beyond the limitations of words. The editors draw together theoretical and creative contributions from translators, artists, performers, academics and curators who have explored intersemiotic translation in their practice. The contributions offer a practitioner’s perspective on this rapidly evolving, interdisciplinary field which spans semiotics, cognitive poetics, psychoanalysis and transformative learning theory. The book underlines the intermedial and multimodal nature of perception and expression, where semiotic boundaries are considered fluid and heuristic rather than ontological. It will be of particular interest to practitioners, scholars and students of modern foreign languages, linguistics, literary and cultural studies, interdisciplinary humanities, visual arts, theatre and the performing arts.

Intersemiotic Journeys between Media

Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders

Car crash culture is a symptom of the 20th century, the author argues in this book, revealing that our love of the car and technology is caused by the continuing influence of turn-of-the-century ideas: the futurist technological utopia and a romantic return to nature.

A Century of Romantic Futurisms

Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture

Maria-José Blanco

The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a“dying party” in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By studying and considering how death is thought about in the contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our lives.

Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society

The Power of Death

Manuela Perteghella

Home on the Move explores notions of 'home' that are challenged and reshaped by unprecedented migration. The anthology interrogates ideas of home, belonging and language from poetic perspectives. The creative responses are the results of a journey undertaken by two poems about 'home': poet Deryn Rees-Jones' poem 'HOME' who traveled from the UK via France to Spain and back and Polish poet Rafal Gawin's poem: 'DOM. KONSTRUKCJA W PROCESIE SADOWYM' ('Home. Structure on Trial'). Gawin traveled to the UK via Romania and back to Poland and the poems reflects the inspiration of these places. During each journey, the poems were translated by a literary translator and a local film artist.

Ricarda Vidal

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