Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language

Emily Dalgarno

ISBN 10: 1107010187 / ISBN 13: 9781107010185

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 translation within the university, but also to readers like herself. In Three Guineas she ranged herself among German scholars who used Antigone to critique European politics of the 1930s. Orlando outwits the censors with a strategy that focuses on Proust's untranslatable word. The Waves and The Years show her looking ahead to the problems of postcolonial society, where translation crosses borders. In this in-depth study of Woolf and European languages and literatures, Emily Dalgarno opens up a rewarding new way of reading her prose.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107010187
• ISBN 13: 9781107010185
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 17D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 487 grams

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Synopsis

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 translation within the university, but also to readers like herself. In Three Guineas she ranged herself among German scholars who used Antigone to critique European politics of the 1930s. Orlando outwits the censors with a strategy that focuses on Proust's untranslatable word. The Waves and The Years show her looking ahead to the problems of postcolonial society, where translation crosses borders. In this first in-depth study of Woolf and European languages and literatures, Emily Dalgarno opens up a rewarding new way of reading her prose.

About the Author

Emily Dalgarno is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Boston University.