Bilingual Aesthetics : A New Sentimental Education PDF
by Sommer Doris Sommer
Part of the Public planet books series
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Sommer encourages readers to entertain the creative possibilities inherent in multilingualism. With her characteristic wit and love of language, she focuses on humor-particularly bilingual jokes-as the place where tensions between and within cultures are played out. She draws on thinking about humor and language by a range of philosophers and others, including Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Mikhail Bakhtin. In declaring the merits of allowing for crossed signals, Sommer sends a clear message: Making room for more than one language is about value added, not about remediation. It is an expression of love for a contingent and changing world.
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- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:07/04/2004
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- ISBN:9780822385790
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:07/04/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822385790