Wendy Lesser: The Genius of Language

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Cover: 9781400033232 | The Genius of Language | Wendy Lesser | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2005

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Beschreibung

Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser's call for original essays on the subject of language-the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the Chinese language with which she grew up. Leonard Michaels spoke only Yiddish until he was five, and still found its traces in his English language writing. Belgian-born Luc Sante loved his French Tintin and his Sartre, but only in English could he find "words of one syllable” that evoke American bars and bus stops. And although Louis Begley writes novels in English and addresses family members in Polish, he still speaks French with his wife-the language of their courtship. As intimate as one's dreams, as private as a secret identity, these essays examine and reveal the writers' pride, pain, and pleasure in learning a new tongue, revisiting an old one, and reconciling the joys and frustrations of each.

Über den Autor

Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of four previous books. Her reviews and essays appear in major newspapers and magazines across the country. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and in 1997 she received the Morton Dauwen Zaub Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and son.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Wendy Lesser

BANGLA
The Way Back Bharati Mukherjee

CHINESE
Yes and No Amy Tan

CZECH
Trouble with Language Josef Skvorecky

DUTCH
Circus Biped Bert Keizer

FRENCH
French Without Tears Luc Sante

GERMAN
Prelude Thomas Laqueur

GIKUYU
Recovering the Original Ngugi wa Thiong'o

GREEK
Split Self Nicholas Papandreou

ITALIAN
Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald

KOREAN
Personal and Singular Ha-yun Jung

POLISH
On Being an Orphaned Writer Louis Begley

RUSSIAN
The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye Gary Shteyngart

SCOTS
Boswell and Mrs. Miller James Campbell

SPANISH
Footnotes to a Double Life Ariel Dorfman

YIDDISH
My Yiddish Leonard Michaels

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	256
ISBN-13:	9781400033232
ISBN-10:	1400033233
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lesser, Wendy
Hersteller:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße:	206 x 134 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Wendy Lesser
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.07.2005
Gewicht:	0,2 kg

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Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	256
ISBN-13:	9781400033232
ISBN-10:	1400033233
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lesser, Wendy
Hersteller:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße:	206 x 134 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Wendy Lesser
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.07.2005
Gewicht:	0,2 kg