Bilingual Aesthetics - A New Sentimental Education

Informationen zum Autor Doris Sommer Klappentext "This is a tour de force--a brilliantly conceived and executed performance of scholarly seduction."--Diana Taylor, author of "The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas" Zusammenfassung An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship! ethnicity! and diversity Inhaltsverzeichnis Thanks vii Invitation xi 1 Choose and Lose >2 Aesthetics is a Joke 29 3 Irritate the State 71 4 The Common Sense Sublime 115 5 Let’s Play Games 157 Notes >Index of Proper Names 251

Product details

• Authors: Doris Sommer
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2004
• EAN: 9780822333449
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3344-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Public Planet Books; Public Planet Books
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics