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Multilingualism and Modernity

Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature

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  • © 2018

Overview

  • Challenges the tendency to study authors within a monolingual frame
  • Contributes to debates within Hispanic and literary studies on modernism
  • Addresses a wide-ranging Hispanic literary context while offering extended analysis of the work of authors of international renown
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: New Comparisons in World Literature (NCWL)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

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About this book

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 become emblematic of the modern age. The book explores the confluence of multilingualism and modernity in the theme of barbarism, examining the significance of this theme to the relationship between language and modernity in the Spanish-speaking world, and the work of five authors in particular. These authors – Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Ernest Hemingway, José María Arguedas, Jorge Semprún and Juan Goytisolo – explore the stylistic and conceptual potential of the interaction between languages, including Spanish, French, English, Galician, Quechua and Arabic, their work reflecting the eclecticism of literary multilingualism while revealing its significance as a mode of response to modernity.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Laura Lonsdale

About the author

Laura Lonsdale is Associate Professor of Modern Spanish Literature at Oxford University, UK, and Fellow of The Queen’s College.

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