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The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

An Escape from Language into Language: The Internal Exile of Louis Wolfson

Abstract

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<p>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.</p>

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
Master
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Comparative Literature
Grantor
The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
Year dc:date.available
2016

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Rideau, Antoine N
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Bettina Lerner

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1620
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-2617

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Last updated
2026-07-24
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citation

Rideau, Antoine N. An Escape from Language into Language: The Internal Exile of Louis Wolfson. Master thesis, The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York, 2016. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1620