Multilingualism and Modernity Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature /

• Main Author: Lonsdale, Laura (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Comparisons in World Literature
• Subjects: Literature .; Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; America-Literatures.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; North American Literature.

This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the conventional bounds of modernism to...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Multilingualism, 'poétique imprévisible de la modernité'.- 2. The barbarous and the divine: ideologies of language in Valle-Inclán.- 3.Equivocation and barbarism: Hemingway's modernist mistranslations.- 4. Transculturation and mistura: Arguedas's provincial poetics
• 5. Totalitarianism and translation in Semprún
• 6. Multilingualism and utopia in Goytisolo.