HUMOUR MECHANISMS IN TRANSLATING P. G. WODEHOUSE INTO ROMANIAN by Laura CIOCHINĂ-CARASEVICI

Subjects: “…P. G. Wodehouse, humour mechanisms, untranslatability of humour, travel.…”
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Descriptive Language and Idiomatic Phrases in P.G. Wodehouse’s Novels by Armenuhi Martirosyan

“…This article is devoted to the study of descriptive language and idiomatic phrases used in P.G. Wodehouse’s novels. Here we try to show what really attracts the reader: the plot or the style? …”
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Gender and Humor in P. G. Wodehouse’s Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin and The Cat-Nappers by Zerrin EREN

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P. G. Wodehouse’s ‘Thoughtful Lightness’ and Detached Involvement: Satire, Parody and the Subversive Use of the Canonical Intertext in Code of the Woosters (1938) by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…P. G. Wodehouse has long been neglected, if not ostracised, by academia and critics, because of a persistent prejudice against light writing and reading. …”
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A Sherlock Holmes Compendium / by Haining, Peter, editor 241900

“…The contributors include J.M. Barrie, P.G. Wodehouse, Anthony Burgess and Basil Rathbone. There are also puzzles and quizzes, and a look at Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Holmes on television.…”

“Buoyantly, nippily, testily” – Remarks on translating manner adverbs into Romanian by Protopopescu Daria

“…Our current discussion of manner adverbs aims at investigating the different strategies employed by the Romanian translator in rendering the variety of manner adverbs occurring in the translation of P.G. Wodehouse’s “Right ho, Jeeves.” Because English is an adverbial language while Romanian appears to be partly adverbial, it will be interesting to see how the Romanian translator fares in the endeavour of translating manner adverbs and if the predictions made in formal studies on manner adverbs are borne out by the data provided by translation.…”
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EUROPE BETWEEN THE NATION AND THE GLOBE by David Damrosch

“…Examples as varied as Bartolomé de Las Casas, P. G. Wodehouse, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Eugene Ionesco can suggest something of the international variety that is regularly to be found within a national literary culture. …”
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Elephants and Light Fantasy: Humour in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series by Caroline Duvezin-Caubet

“…Howard, William Shakespeare, Jerome K. Jerome, P.G. Wodehouse, the Monty Pythons and so many others, yet the whimsical, borderline absurd universe he has developed during thirty-two years and over the course of forty-one main novels resembles no other. …”
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Furthering the Development of Virtual Agents and Communication Robot Devices through the Consideration of the Temporal Home by Andrew C. Pooley, Andrew May, Val Mitchell

“…We recruited representatives from 15 households with varied compositions, ranging from single inhabitants to full nest families. Drawing upon P.G. Wodehouse’s The Inimitable Jeeves as an inspiration, the methodology sought to imitate the relationship between a recruitment agency worker (researcher) and an employer (participant) seeking to hire a personal assistant (e.g., a virtual agent or communication robot device) for their home. …”
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The Balkan Theme in The Secret of Chimneys by Graham St. John Stott, Aysar Yaseen

“…Keywords: Christie, Balkans, Romania, oil, brigandsAgatha Christie’s The Secret of Chimneys (1925) has been faulted for being on the one hand a frothy mix of Anthony Hope and P. G. Wodehouse (Thompson 143) and on the other a mishmash of popular ethnic, national and regional stereotypes – including those of the Balkans (Todorova 122). …”
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