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En 1886, William-Little Hughes traduit le célèbre roman de Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Cette première traduction française, à travers les métamorphoses qu'elle fait subir au personnage de Jim et à sa parole, le Black English, constitue un renversement majeur de l'entreprise initiale de Twain. En effet, dans ce texte aux relents de colonialisme, Jim est confiné à un rôle de subalterne idiot, et Huck, à celui de maître blanc paternaliste et autoritaire. Toute traduction, quelle que soit sa visée, crée inévitablement des différences; telle est la nature intrinsèque de ce processus. À travers l'étude de sept traductions françaises du roman, Judith Lavoie montre que les déplacements opérés par les traducteurs ne sont ni le fruit du hasard, ni irréfléchis, mais peuvent être associés à un réseau organisé de choix esthétique et idéologique. Qu'il s'agisse de la version de Hughes, se situant aux antipodes du roman américain, ou de celle de Suzanne Nétillard (1948), qui réactive le message contestataire de l'original, toutes les traductions sont fondées sur un véritable projet et jettent un éclairage unique sur une œuvre fascinante. Judith Lavoie détient un doctorat en lettres et traduction de l'université McGill. Elle est actuellement professeure au Département de linguistique et de traduction de l'Université de Montréal. Elle a mérité, pour cet ouvrage à l'état de manuscrit, le prix Vinay-Darbelnet de l'Association canadienne de traductologie. Prix du Gouverneur général du Canada 2002 Prix Vinay-Darbelnet, 1999 (pour la thèse dont a été tiré le livre) Finaliste, Grand Prix du livre de Montréal, 2002.

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Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the artistic and philosophical versions of vagueness, linking the development of literary modernism to changes in philosophy. This book argues that the problem of vagueness - language's unavoidable imprecision - led to transformations in both fiction and philosophy in the early twentieth century. Both twentieth-century philosophers and their literary counterparts (including James, Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce) were fascinated by the vagueness of words and the dream of creating a perfectly precise language. Building on recent interest in the connections between analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness demonstrates that vagueness should be read not as an artistic problem but as a defining quality of modernist fiction.

Modernism (Literature) --- Fiction --- Vagueness (Philosophy) --- Language and languages in literature. --- Philosophy --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- Language and languages in literature --- History and criticism

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"Telling in Henry James argues that James's contribution to narrative and narrative theories is a lifelong exploration of how to "tell," but not, as Douglas has it in "The Turn of the Screw" in any "literal, vulgar way." James's fiction offers multiple, and often contradictory, reading (in)directions. Zwinger's overarching contention is that the telling detail is that which cannot be accounted for with any single critical or theoretical lens-that reading James is in some real sense a reading of the disquietingly inassimilable "fictional machinery." The analyses offered by each of the six chapters are grounded in close reading and focused on oddments-textual equivalents to the "particles" James describes as caught in a silken spider web, in a famous analogy used in "The Art of Fiction" to describe the kind of "consciousness" James wants his fiction to present to the reader. Telling in Henry James attends to the sheer fun of James's wit and verbal dexterity, to the cognitive tune-up offered by the complexities and nuances of his precise and rhythmic syntax, and to the complex and contradictory contrapuntal impact of the language on the page, tongue, and ear."--Bloomsbury Publishing. "Explores via close readings the elements of James's fiction that relate to narrative theories and the acting of telling"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Language and languages in literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- James, Henry, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist studies. She traces the ways that Deaf culture, history, linguistics, and literature provide a vital and largely untapped resource for understanding the history of American language politics and the impact that history has had on modernist aesthetic production. Discussing Deaf and disability studies in these unexpected contexts highlights the contributions the field can make to broader discussions of the intersections between images, bodies, and text. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches, including literary analysis and history, linguistics, ethics, and queer, cultural, and film studies, Sanchez sheds new light on texts by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Charlie Chaplin, and many others. By approaching modernism through the perspective of Deaf and disability studies, Deafening Modernism reconceptualizes deafness as a critical modality enabling us to freshly engage topics we thought we knew. Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist studies. She traces the ways that Deaf culture, history, linguistics, and literature provide a vital and largely untapped resource for understanding the history of American language politics and the impact that history has had on modernist aesthetic production. Discussing Deaf and disability studies in these unexpected contexts highlights the contributions the field can make to broader discussions of the intersections between images, bodies, and text. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches, including literary analysis and history, linguistics, ethics, and queer, cultural, and film studies, Sanchez sheds new light on texts by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Charlie Chaplin, and many others. By approaching modernism through the perspective of Deaf and disability studies, Deafening Modernism reconceptualizes deafness as a critical modality enabling us to freshly engage topics we thought we knew.

Language and languages in literature. --- Visual poetry, American --- Modernism (Literature) --- American visual poetry --- American poetry --- History and criticism.

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Language and languages in literature. --- Music and literature --- Poetics --- Lyric poetry --- Songs in literature. --- English poetry --- Literature and music --- Literature --- Poetry --- History --- History and criticism.