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An Exploration of Translator and Interpreter Training Offered by Professional Translator and Interpreter Associations in Canada
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Over the last several decades, Canada has seen a diversification as well as an overall increase in immigration which has introduced a variety of different translation and interpreting needs that play a vital role in facilitating immigrant integration. Given the fact that these translation and...
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Brazil on the Map: English-language Reception of Three Authors in an Age of Shifting Canons
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According to David Damrosch, world literature is a locus of negotiation between a source culture and a host culture, and a “space defined in many ways by the host culture’s national tradition and the present needs of its own writers” (What Is World Literature? 283). Damrosch also notes that “more...
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Fall 2023
Childhood forms the basis for a lifetime of ecological interaction. Due to many contemporary ecological challenges, including the threat of climate change, children today grow up with complex relationships to the environment. However, there remains relatively little scholarship on recent novels...
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The Wide and Silent Land: Environmental Imaginaries of the Plains in Latin American Literature
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The dissertation traces the evolution of dominant environmental imaginations of the Latin American plains as depicted in literary texts. It offers the close readings of texts in various genres, targeting the descriptions of plains geographies. I argue in favour of establishing an epistemology of...