| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910511686603321 |
|
|
Autore |
Gramling David <1976-> |
|
|
Titolo |
The invention of monolingualism / / David Gramling |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2016 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-5013-1806-3 |
1-5013-1807-1 |
1-5013-1808-X |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Education, Bilingual |
Interdisciplinary approach in education |
Language experience approach in education |
Languages, Modern - Scholarships, fellowships, etc |
Languages, Modern - Study and teaching |
Electronic books. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Monolingualism: A Users' Guide -- 2 Kafka's Well-Tempered Piano -- 3 The Passing of World Literaricity -- 4 Right of Languages, Rites of Untranslatability Epilogue: Into the Linguacene -- Works Cited -- Index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
"The Invention of Monolingualism harnesses literary studies, applied-linguisitics, translation studies, and cultural studies to offer a ground-breaking investigation of monolingualism. After briefly describing what "monolingual" currently means in scholarship and public discourse, and the pejorative effects this common use may have on non-elite, non-cosmopolitan populations, Gramling sets out, across four chapters, to discover a new conception of monolingualism. Along the way, he explores how writers-Arabic, Latin American, German, and English-language-have in recent decades confronted monolingualism in their texts, and how they have critiqued the World Literature industry's increasing hunger for "translatable" novels. Moving from surprising and |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
startlingly original case studies to brilliant reappraisals of widely-taught concepts in literary studies, The Invention of Monolingualism is a book to be reckoned with for students and scholars of literary theory, world literature, and the political and cultural implications of translation."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
"The first book in the humanities and social sciences to offer an extensive conceptual definition of monolingualism, based on literary, applied-linguistic, technological, and translational examples"--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |