Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives [1 ed.] 9780271078632, 9780271036724

The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preemine

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Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives [1 ed.]
9780271078632, 9780271036724

The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preemine

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The first substantial study of multilingual film in France. Unpacking the power dynamics at play in the dialogue of eigh

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In a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication s

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Literary interest has centered on Charlemagne’s role in French epic poetry,and his image in tate medieval French prose w

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Early in the eighth century, the current of the Muslim movement that inundated northern Spain crept over the Pyrenees to

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This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Mi

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The shaping and sharing of narrative has always been key to the negotiation and recreation of reality for individuals an

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WINNER OF THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD ‘Amazing, original, boundary breaking. Gurdeep is a genius with flavour and a te

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Identifies the idea of monolingualism as a modern European invention dating to the 18th century that functions to obscur

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