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How Bilingual Novelists Utilize their Linguistic Knowledge: Towards a Typology of the Contemporary ‘Modern Languages Novel’ in English
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Aled Rees
Modern Languages Open, Volume: 1, Start page: 1
Swansea University Authors:
Julian Preece , Aled Rees
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DOI (Published version): 10.3828/mlo.v0i0.378
Abstract
We present in survey form a typology of a new sub-genre we term the English 'Modern Languages Novel', identifying five overlapping categories in a large sample of fiction, most of it by authors whose work has been submitted to the Booker or Man-Booker Prize over fifty years between 1969 an...
| Published in: | Modern Languages Open |
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| ISSN: | 2052-5397 |
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Liverpool
Liverpool University Press
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56340 |
| Abstract: |
We present in survey form a typology of a new sub-genre we term the English 'Modern Languages Novel', identifying five overlapping categories in a large sample of fiction, most of it by authors whose work has been submitted to the Booker or Man-Booker Prize over fifty years between 1969 and 2018. The five types are: war fiction set abroad; novels featuring a cultural intermediary, such as a language teacher or spy, as narrative focaliser in a foreign setting; novels written after a period of exposure to linguistic and cultural alienation but which do not directly thematise the experience; novels with snippets of untranslated dialogue or other quotations from other languages; and finally novels set in a new language environment without an Anglophone focaliser. We comment on examples of each type and present an explanation for the invisibility of the sub-genre up to now. |
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| Keywords: |
trans-lingual writing, hidden language knowledge, encounter with abroad |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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AHRC AH/N004647/1
Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community, Lead Research Organisation: University of Manchester, Department Name: Arts Languages and Cultures |
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1 |