Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands

Auteur

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.

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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.

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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]