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  1. Glottofagia nei testi di Umberto Eco, Wolfdietrich Schnurre e Yoko Tawada Glottophagy in Eco, Schnurre and Tawada
    Author: Genz, Julia
    Published: 06.12.2011

    The paper deals with an aspect of materiality in language as it is expressed in the complex metaphor of glottophagia, invented by Louis-Jean Calvet in the context of linguistics and colonialism. In this article the term is released from Calvet's... more

     

    The paper deals with an aspect of materiality in language as it is expressed in the complex metaphor of glottophagia, invented by Louis-Jean Calvet in the context of linguistics and colonialism. In this article the term is released from Calvet's unilateral negative use of the term as he focuses on its relation to orality, and instead it is linked with the positive literal tradition of eating written language as e.g. in the Bible and in the Classical Antiquity. From this point of view, glottophagia's poetological function as destroying, combining, reanimating, and purifying language emerges as a crucial feature of literary texts by Umberto Eco, Wolfdietrich Schnurre and Yoko Tawada.

     

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    Language: Italian
    Media type: Article
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 800
    Subjects: Eco, Umberto; Schnurre, Wolfdietrich; Tawada, Yoko; Calvet, Louis-Jean
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