Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands: The Challenge of Trieste [Hardcover]

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 civilizations.

 

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.

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 LEco del Klutsch [The Echo of Klutsch]

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 differenló=