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Bilingual aesthetics : a new sentimental education
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Bilingual aesthetics : a new sentimental education

Author: Doris Sommer
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series: Public planet books.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and diversity. This work is a call for citizens and officials to cultivate difference,  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sommer, Doris, 1947-
Bilingual aesthetics.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2004
(OCoLC)681437243
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Doris Sommer
ISBN: 0822333325 9780822333326 0822333449 9780822333449
OCLC Number: 53289888
Description: xxv, 254 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: 1. Choose and lose --
2. Aesthetics is a joke --
3. Irritate the state --
4. The common sense sublime --
5. Let's play games.
Series Title: Public planet books.
Responsibility: Doris Sommer.
Local System Bib Number:
422782
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"Doris Sommer's book is the most thorough exploration of the possibilities that bilingualism opens to public life in contemporary societies. Written in a rigorous way, it is also punctuated by Read more...

 
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