Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Poetics of Multilingualism – La Poétique du plurilinguisme (Poetica et Metrica)

Poetica et Metrica 2. One of the most fascinating aspects of the poetics of multilingualism is that it reveals national literatures to be an outcome of transcultural reflection. This kind of reflection can surface in lexical borrowings and inventions, in attempts at imitating foreign language features, and in combining and improvising stylistic and linguistic devices. The experiments presented in this book range from idiosyncratic and “forced” solutions to the partly unconscious creation of new genres from situations of cultural contact. Multilingualism, as such, turns out to be basic for the emergence of vernacular literatures. While research on the poetics of multilingualism is usually restricted to specific authors, languages, genres or epochs, this book addresses the issue from the perspective of its general systematics, and reflects the diversity of the phenomenon. It provides facets from individual authors’ poetics to conventionalised features of poetics, and from written to oral and sung products of multilingual creation. By focusing on the topic’s ontology, its basic categories and relations, the volume demonstrates the fundamental importance of multilingualism for literary and linguistic theory with studies on a number of European countries and regions, including multilingualism in the literature and literary traditions of the Alsace, the Basque Country, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Russia, Sardinia, and Spain. About the Author Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna received her PhD in German Linguistics in 2003 and her habilitation in 2009. She is Professor of German Language at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany. Her research interests include phonology, metrics, and subsystem interactions between phonology, syntax, and information structure. Levente Seláf received his PhD in Medieval Studies and Literature in 2003 and his habilitation in 2016. He is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the ELTE University of Budapest. His research interests include theory of poetry, translation studies, medieval and early modern literature, as well as contemporary French and Hungarian poetry, particularly that of the members of the Oulipo.