Reading Novels Translingually - Twenty-First-Century Case Studies

This book analyzes how literary fiction depicts multilingual worlds by incorporating multiple languages into the text. Taking as case studies several contemporary novels as well as Leo Tolstoy's nineteenth-century classic War and Peace, it explores how reading becomes a translingual process.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments      
Chapter 1: Introduction: Translingual Reading          
Chapter 2: Implied Readers in the Translingual Text: The Case of Olga Grushin’s The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Chapter 3: Translingual Protagonists Go Global
Chapter 4: The Translingual Narrator and Language Gaps: The Case of Zinaida Lindén’s Many Countries Ago
Chapter 5: The Literary Translator as Reader: The Case of Rabih Aladmeddine’s An Unnecessary Woman
Chapter 6: Suspicion and the Suspension of Disbelief in Multilingual Fiction: The Case of a Nordic Suspense Novel
Chapter 7: Code-Switching and Language-Mixing in Lev Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Chapter 8: Reading Between Medieval and Modern: The Case of Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus   
Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks

 Bibliography   

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Julie Hansen is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages at Uppsala University and a specialist in comparative literature and Slavic literatures.

Zusammenfassung

This book analyzes how literary fiction depicts multilingual worlds by incorporating multiple languages into the text. Taking as case studies several contemporary novels as well as Leo Tolstoy’s nineteenth-century classic War and Peace, it explores how reading becomes a translingual process.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Julie Hansen
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 16.01.2024, verspätet
• EAN: 9781644698778
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-877-8
• Seiten: 218
• Serie: Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Fiction in translation, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Translation & interpretation, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form