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As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels includ
The Birth to Presence
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The epoch of representation is as old as the West. Indeed, representation is the West, understood as what at once designates and expands its own limits. But wha
The Organization of Distance
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The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders
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This collection showcases a multivalent approach to the study of literary multilingualism, embodied in contemporary Nordic literature. While previous approaches
Neo-Latin and the Vernaculars
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The early modern world was profoundly bilingual: alongside the emerging vernaculars, Latin continued to be pervasively used well into the 18th century. Authors