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Exercises in Translation: Swiss-British Cultural Interchange
Contributor(s): Charnley, Joy (Editor), Pender, Malcolm (Editor)
ISBN: 0820483281     ISBN-13: 9780820483283
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $42.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2006
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Western Europe - General
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
LCCN: 2007416232
Physical Information: 215 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
 
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Publisher Description:
From 2002 to 2004 Presence Suisse funded a 'Swiss Fellow in the UK' programme in five universities in the four regions of the United Kingdom which enabled a Swiss writer or academic to be based in one university and to undertake short visits to the other four. Three Swiss Fellows, each writing in one of the official languages of Switzerland, took part. This book marks the success of the programme and the events which it generated by assembling contributions from participants and organisers and from others involved in Swiss studies in the United Kingdom. The essays deal with aspects of perception and mediation which occur in the interchange between two countries. There are views of each country acquired by citizens of the other through travel or short sojourns; comments on the effect on their writing from writers who have adopted the other country by living there permanently; and accounts of interchange through critical appreciation, translation and cultural borrowing.