Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands - The Challenge of Trieste

This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland located at the intersection between the Latin, Germanic and Slav civilizations.

List of contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Translations
Introduction: Languages and Borderlands
Chapter 1 Literary Multilingualism in Borderlands: Theoretical Premises
Chapter 2 The Choice of the First Language
Chapter 3 Poetry in Triestino
Chapter 4 Exploiting an Extensive Repertoire
Chapter 5 Writing in the Dominant Language
Conclusions: On Literary Borderlanguaging
Appendix: Notes for the sonnet L'Eco del Klutsch [The Echo of Klutsch]

About the author

Marianna Deganutti studied in Italy, Slovenia and the UK. She holds a DPhil (PhD) in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. From 2016 to 2018, she was a Research Associate at the University of Bath, where she worked for the Horizon 2020-funded project UNREST. She has just completed a postdoc at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Summary

This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland located at the intersection between the Latin, Germanic and Slav civilizations.

Product details

• Authors: Marianna Deganutti
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032213279
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221327-9
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Sociolinguistics, Literary studies: general, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching theory and methods, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism