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Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands: The Challenge of Trieste

Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands: The Challenge of Trieste

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Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1032213272
ISBN13: 9781032213279
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2024
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 civilisations.

By focusing on some of the most representative modern writers operating in the area, such as Italo Svevo, Boris Pahor, Claudio Magris and James Joyce, this work offers a wide-ranging discussion of multilingual practices deriving from the different language choices made by these writers. Along with the most common manifest strategies, such as code-switching and hybridisations, Deganutti highlights how Triestine writers found innovative latent practices to engage with multilingualism, such as writing in an analogical way or exploiting internal linguistic stratifications. Moreover, she shows how they provided answers to the several linguistic, cultural and even political challenges they were subjected to, with the result of redefining linguistic boundaries that clearly separate different tongues.

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