Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands

The Challenge of Trieste

Marianna Deganutti

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Sociolinguistics; Bilingualism & multilingualism; Language teaching theory & methods; Literary studies: general

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

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.

This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and academics interested in literary multilingualism in the fields of sociolinguistics, borderland studies and comparative literature.

By: Marianna Deganutti
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032213279
ISBN 10: 1032213272
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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]

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.