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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald

Szczodrak, AgataThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2017

<p>The German Romantic monolingual paradigm of national identity emerged in the late eighteenth century to establish a mother tongue as a national backbone. This paradigm portrayed multilingualism as destabilizing, impoverishing, and unsuitable for aesthetics. Radicalized by the Nazis and …

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