Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
9-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Program
Comparative Literature
Advisor
Bettina Lerner
Subject Categories
Comparative Literature | European Languages and Societies | French and Francophone Literature | Modern Literature | Translation Studies
Keywords
Wolfson, multilingualism, schizophrenia, translation, schizophasia, émigré
Abstract
This paper aims to show how the life and work of American francophone author Louis Wolfson - who suffered from schizophrenia and underwent a self-imposed exile from his own mother tongue - might serve to illuminate European émigré writers' relationships to multilingualism.
Recommended Citation
Rideau, Antoine N., "An Escape from Language into Language:
The Internal Exile of Louis Wolfson" (2016). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1620
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