Virginia Woolf and the migrations of language
"Virginia Woolf's rich and imaginative use of language was partly a result of her keen interest in foreign literatures and languages - mainly Greek and French, but also Russian, German and Italian. As a translator she naturally addressed herself both to contemporary standards of translatio...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Translation and ethnography in 'On Not Knowing Greek'; 2. Antigone and the public language; 3. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and the Russian soul; 4. Proust and the fictions of the unconscious; 5. Translation and iterability; 6. Assia Djebar and the poetics of lamentation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.