Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language

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Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language is written by Emily Dalgarno and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1139503278 (ISBN 10) and 9781139503273 (ISBN 13).

Virginia Woolf's rich and imaginative use of language was partly a result of her keen interest in foreign literatures and languages - mainly Greek and French, but also Russian, German and Italian. As a translator she naturally addressed herself both to contemporary standards of translation within the university, but also to readers like herself. In Three Guineas she ranged herself among German scholars who used Antigone to critique European politics of the 1930s. Orlando outwits the censors with a strategy that focuses on Proust's untranslatable word. The Waves and The Years show her looking ahead to the problems of postcolonial society, where translation crosses borders. In this in-depth study of Woolf and European languages and literatures, Emily Dalgarno opens up a rewarding new way of reading her prose.