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Lawrence Alan Rosenwald

Multilingual America

English · Hardback

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Description

Explores the ways in which writers of American literature have represented encounters between communities speaking different languages.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and the languages of America; 2. Alfred Mercier, George W. Cable, and Louisiana French Creole; 3. More than an echo, or, English in Yiddish in America; 4. 'New language fun', or, on translating multilingual American texts; 5. Towards a history of multilingual American literature; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Lawrence Rosenwald is Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature at Wellesley College.

Product details

Authors	Lawrence Alan Rosenwald
Publisher	Cambridge University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	25.09.2008

EAN	9780521896863
ISBN	978-0-521-89686-3
No. of pages	198
Dimensions	157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
Weight	445 g
Series	Cambridge Studies in American
Subjects	Fiction > Poetry, drama Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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