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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"parallel texts"”.
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The enhancement of machine translation for low-density languages using Web-gathered parallel texts.
… models are only effective with a large corpus of parallel texts - texts in two languages that are translations of one another - which most languages lack. This thesis describes the Babylon project which attempts to alleviate this shortage by supplementing existing parallel texts with texts …
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Parallel Texts: Contemporary Women’s Experimental Art Writing in North American Exhibition Catalogues from the 1970s to the Present
… in a mode of what Lisa Robertson calls ‘the parallel text’ or what Lynne Tillman (via Craig Owens) calls writing ‘alongside’ rather than ‘about’ art, they allude to the artwork without making direct reference to it in the text, avoiding naming it explicitly. Through close readings and …
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All done by mirrors: reflectivity in the novels of Elizabeth Taylor (1912-75)
Elizabeth Taylor's texts are elusive and allusive. Part 1 offers a biographical sketch of the writer, then applies theory, drawing on and adapting the work of Harold Bloom, Roman Ingarden, Michael Riffaterre, Linda Hutcheon and Patricia Waugh, among others, to describe and account for the bare …
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Literary Landscapes: Mapping Emergent American Identity in Transatlantic Narratives of Women's Travel of the Long Eighteenth Century
… maps that depict the Americas analyzed as parallel “texts” to canonical and lesser-known women’s narratives ranging from 1688 to 1801 reveal further insights into both maps and these narratives otherwise not apparent. I argue that as mapping of the New World developed, this mapping …
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John Gower and the Apollonius-tradition: including an anonymous Latin prose version, the Latin verse version of Godfrey of Viterbo, and John Gower’s English verse version of the Apollonius story (Confessio amantis, book eight), (together with translations of the Latin, notes, and a glossary of Gower’s Middle-English)
… the possibility of an oral tradition running parallel to the written tradition, and that Gower had heard the Apollonius story related many times “On ember-eves and holy-ales”. The search for a second manuscript ‘source’, then, may prove futile. Nevertheless, the manuscripts of the late …
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An edition of the Conduct of Life based on the six extant manuscripts with full commentary, complementary critical and codicological analysis, notes and introduction
… longevity of its textual tradition its various texts have never been the subject of extended study. This dissertation brings together the seven manuscript versions of the text, which date from the end of the twelfth to the end of the thirteenth centuries, and re-examines them individually and as …