Literature in the Age of Lingua Franca English: The Zero Style
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Literature-in-the-Age-of-Lingua-Franca-English-The-Zero-Style/Quinn/p/book/9781032861630" target="_blank" >https://www.routledge.com/Literature-in-the-Age-of-Lingua-Franca-English-The-Zero-Style/Quinn/p/book/9781032861630</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003521587" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003521587</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Literature in the Age of Lingua Franca English: The Zero Style
Original language description
The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a "bridge language" affects world literature by analyzing what it is, how it works, what are its themes, what it means for canons, and how it is mediated. Cultural criticism often employs perspectives of race, citizenship, and colonialism, as well as considerations of scale (archipelagic, planetary), form (analogies between the literary and the social), and technologies (as they inflect artifacts). These approaches help rethink the new dynamics of anglophone literature, but they have often overlooked one of the basic elements of literature – the language itself. Literatures in English vernaculars have flourished, and Justin Quinn shows that writers are also creating a new idiom in English that is not fixed to a particular locale or community. While sentences may become simpler, the vocabulary range narrower, and rich cultural references lost, Quinn reveals how much this new form of writing gains. He explores the work of a wide range of authors, including Daisy Hildyard, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bryan Washington, Yiyun Li, and Terrance Hayes. Literature in the Age of Lingua Franca English: The Zero Style is an innovative and illuminating resource for students and scholars of global anglophone literature, comparative literature, and cultural studies.
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Classification
Type
B - Specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
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Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
ISBN
978-1-03-286154-8
Number of pages
214
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
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