http://hdl.handle.net/1893/9080 Electronic copies of Literature and Languages book reviews. Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:44:32 GMT 2026-09-25T08:44:32Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37953 Title: Book review of Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets: Critical Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Health Care Interpreting Author(s): Li, Li Abstract: First paragraph: In Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets, Jinhyun Cho sets out an ambitious and timely goal: to examine the persistent under-recognition of healthcare interpreting in Australia through the lens of critical sociolinguistics, with particular emphasis on language, race, and class. Drawing on interviews with 67 healthcare interpreters, Cho argues that the marginalisation of interpreting is deeply tied to Australia’s English monolingualism and the racialised and classed hierarchies that structure Australian society. The book seeks to highlight how these structural conditions shape interpreters’ everyday experiences, limit their recognition as professionals, and undermine equitable access to healthcare for patients who speak languages other than English (LOTE). Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37953 2026-02-10T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/36748 Title: Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain by Sol Miguel-Prendes Author(s): De Souza, Rebecca Abstract: First paragraph: The existence and definition of a late medieval genre of ‘sentimental fiction’ in Iberia have been repeatedly contested. There have been numerous discussions regarding which texts comprise the genre, while its purportedly unifying characteristics—e.g. courtly love, pseudo-autobiography, metafiction, intertextuality, tragic endings— have failed to provide a definitive link between the texts in question. What scholars tend to agree on, however, is that there is something special about these works and that a common focus on internal psychology and subjectivity anticipates the modern novel. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/36748 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35157 Title: 何光滬著。《生於憂患，長於憂患— 何光滬「漢語神學」文 選》。 Author(s): Gao, Zhe Abstract: First paragraph: 本書收錄了「漢語神學」的領路人之一、中國大陸著名基督教學者 何光滬在 1994 年至 2020 年間有關「漢語神學」的論文、訪談及演 講稿，其中絕大部分都是已經發表過的文稿。儘管如此，用「新瓶 裝舊酒」來形容這本論文集似乎有失公允。正如繪畫領域的編年展 形式能夠令觀者更清晰地感受到畫家藝術風格的演進，本書作為何 光滬「漢語神學」思想的「編年展」，確令讀者得以一窺這位中國 宗教學界的大師級人物在過去二十餘年間對與中國問題、漢語語境 相關聯的基督宗教所進行的思考，以及這種思考的發展歷程。 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35157 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33738 Title: Jennifer Richards, Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading Author(s): Drakakis, John Abstract: First paragraph: In her book Literacy and Orality: Composition, Performance and Transmission (2018) the cultural anthropologist Ruth Finnegan challenges the idea that ‘literary forms [are] sometimes said to go with particular forms of society’, and she associates the work of Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong with an essentialist ‘binary typology’ dependent upon preserving a fundamental historical distinction between ‘orality’ and ‘literacy’. Jennifer Richards’ new book, with its insistence upon ‘voices’ and subtitled ‘A New History of Reading’ takes to heart Finnegan’s observation that the two categories of speaking and writing are fundamentally trans-historical and have always been ‘mixed’ in practice. This is substantially, though not entirely, the view that cultural anthropologist Jack Goody subscribes to in part, although his suggestion that ‘a new means of communication does not replace the earlier (except in certain limited spheres); it adds to it and alters it’, (Myth, Ritual and The Oral (2010) p.155) offers a crucial modification. Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33738 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z