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The prosthetic, the dubbed, the metrolingual: the politics and poetics of language in francophone and anglophone world literatureThis thesis examines how and why the imperial languages of French and English are recast in World Literature, by comparatively assessing how postcolonial authors from French and British ex-colonies, non-metropoles, and the metropolitan margins have re-appropriated the languages that they were once oppressed in and through. Exploring the perception and employment of these once colonial languages in
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Negotiating hybridity in Gu Hongming’s English translation of Confucian textsThis thesis investigates Gu Hongming’s English translation of three Confucian classics Lunyu (1898), Zhongyong (1906) and Daxue (1915). Rather than regarding Gu’s work as extreme domestication, this study reinterprets it as a hybrid translation by considering his ambiguous view of culture in a specific historical context. The focus is on how Gu translated China to the Anglophone world in the late
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Standing Again(st): Reencounters of Resistance in Paul Celan's Translative Transformations<p><strong>The poetic oeuvre of German-language Bukovinian Jewish poet Paul Celan (1920-1970), defined by its haunting confrontation with the Shoah, has received extensive, sustained scholarly attention, being widely recognised as a cornerstone of post–World War II German-language literature. Nevertheless, his impressive corpus of literary translations spanning over forty poets and multiple langua