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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Adrian WannerPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.633kg ISBN: 9780810141247ISBN 10: 0810141248 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 31 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: In stock  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Bilingual Muse confirms Adrian Wanner as the leading scholar of Russian literary translingualism. His scintillating study of self-translation by seven disparate poets is attentive to the nuances of prosody as well as issues of cultural and personal identity. Especially luminescent are Wanner's discussion of the short-lived polyglot prodigy Elizaveta Kul'man, his recuperation of the painter Wassily Kandinsky as a formidable trilingual poet, and his account of why Vladimir Nabokov regarded autotranslation as 'self-torture. - Steven G. Kellman, author of The Translingual Imagination The Bilingual Muse is illuminating and useful. It is rare and unusual to see the kind of thorough treatment of all levels of language and prosody that Wanner provides. - Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, author of Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the First Emigration The Bilingual Muse confirms Adrian Wanner as the leading scholar of Russian literary translingualism. His scintillating study of self-translation by seven disparate poets is attentive to the nuances of prosody as well as issues of cultural and personal identity. Especially luminescent are Wanner's discussion of the short-lived polyglot prodigy Elizaveta Kul'man, his recuperation of the painter Wassily Kandinsky as a formidable trilingual poet, and his account of why Vladimir Nabokov regarded autotranslation as 'self-torture.' -Steven G. Kellman, author of The Translingual Imagination The Bilingual Muse is illuminating and useful. It is rare and unusual to see the kind of thorough treatment of all levels of language and prosody that Wanner provides. -Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, author of Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the First Emigration Author InformationADRIAN WANNER is the Liberal Arts Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He is the author of Russian Minimalism: From the Prose Poem to the Anti-Story and Out of Russia: Fictions of a New Translingual Diaspora, both published by Northwestern University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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