TY  - CHAP
A1  - Prudente, Teresa
T1  - The shuffling of feet on the pavement : Virginia Woolf on un-learning the mother tongue
T2  - Untying the mother tongue / ed. by Antonio Castore and Federico Dal Bo ; Cultural Inquiry ; 26
N2  - The essay focusses on how Woolf's quest for a 'universal' language of the mind can be read as redefining and even reinventing the notion of mother tongue. In particular, "The Waves" offers a reconfiguration of the process of language acquisition that symbolically reverses its linear development. Woolf's stress on a dynamic, ever-moving conception of language, her connection with Coleridge's perspectives on language, and her view of ancient Greek as an ideal lost language reveal her questioning of the idea of a culturally homogeneous and monolithic language. The notion of mother tongue is thus reconfigured by the writer in terms of a dreamed and imagined ideal language combining familiarity and foreignness, reality and ideality, exactness and the perpetual deferral of meaning.
KW  - Woolf, Virginia
KW  - The waves
KW  - Sprache <Motiv>
KW  - Muttersprache
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/75597
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-755973
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-26/prudente_woolf-on-un-learning.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-050-3
SN  - 978-3-96558-051-0
SN  - 978-3-96558-049-7
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 127
EP  - 153
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -