Bilingual aesthetics
Subtitle: a new sentimental education
By: Doris Sommer.
Series: Public planet books
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Bilingualism -- Social aspects.; Aesthetics.
Description: "In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. Today's global world has outgrown any one-to-one correlation between a people and a language; liberal democracies can either encourage difference or stifle it through exclusionary policies. Bilingual Aesthetics is Sommer's passionate call for citizens and officials to cultivate difference and to realize that the precarious points of contact resulting from mismatches between languages, codes, and cultures are the lifeblood of democracy, as well as the stimulus for aesthetics and philosophy."--Amazon
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-250 and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Choose and lose; title: 2. Aesthetics is a joke; title: 3. Irritate the state; title: 4. The common sense sublime; title: 5. Let's play games.