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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300018003321

Autore

Lonsdale Laura

Titolo

Multilingualism and Modernity : Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature / / by Laura Lonsdale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-67328-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 246 p.)

Collana

New Comparisons in World Literature, , 2634-6095

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Literature   

Comparative literature

Literature, Modern—20th century

America—Literatures

Postcolonial/World Literature

Comparative Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Multilingualism, ‘poétique imprévisible de la modernité’.- 2. The barbarous and the divine: ideologies of language in Valle-Inclán.- 3.Equivocation and barbarism: Hemingway’s modernist mistranslations.- 4. Transculturation and mistura: Arguedas’s provincial poetics -- 5. Totalitarianism and translation in Semprún -- 6. Multilingualism and utopia in Goytisolo.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the conventional bounds of modernism to become emblematic of the modern age. The book explores the confluence of multilingualism and modernity in the theme of barbarism, examining the significance of this theme to the relationship between language and modernity in the Spanish-speaking



world, and the work of five authors in particular. These authors – Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Ernest Hemingway, José María Arguedas, Jorge Semprún and Juan Goytisolo – explore the stylistic and conceptual potential of the interaction between languages, including Spanish, French, English, Galician, Quechua and Arabic, their work reflecting the eclecticism of literary multilingualism while revealing its significance as a mode of response to modernity.