Quest For Connections In Language Culture Literature

Quest for Connections in Language, Culture, Literature

Academic diversity, relevant research and plurality of perspectives will turn this volume into a deep reading experience. Scholars from countries as diverse as Albania, Belarus, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovenia, the UK, the USA and Uzbekistan share their insights into the theory of discourse, translation studies, education and more. The book will enrich the readers’ worldview, linguistic and otherwise, and provide a plethora of creative ideas for anyone who is interested in philology, literary translation and university-level teaching.

QUEST FOR CONNECTIONS IN LANGUAGE, CULTURE, LITERATURE.

Reading Home Cultures Through Books

This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home.