Reading Novels Translingually : Twenty-First-Century Case Studies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Julie.

Contributor:

The Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University, Funder.

Series:

Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Multilingualism and literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brighton : Academic Studies Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Front Cover

Half-title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

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 Alameddine's An Unnecessary Woman

Chapter 6: Suspicion and the Suspension of Disbelief in Multilingual Fiction: The Case of a Nordic Thriller

Chapter 7: Code-Switching and Language-Mixing in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

Chapter 8: Reading Between Medieval and Modern: The Case of Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus

Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

Back Cover.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

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ISBN:

9798887193861

OCLC:

1417196349