The temporal in-betweenness of Caroline Bergvall’s heterolingual poetics in Meddle English, Drift, and Alisoun Sings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21763197 |
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| Authors | Élise Angioi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 22.2 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | E-rea (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1638-1718 • E-ISSN: 1638-1718 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/144qw |
| OpenAlex | W4411314092 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This article explores the formation and critical potential of contemporary French-Norwegian artist and poet Caroline Bergvall’s medieval trilogy, Meddle English (2011), Drift (2015), and Alisoun Sings (2019). In these three books, Bergvall develops a heterolingual aesthetic by creating a language that is materially composed of diachronic and dialectical variations of English, both from medieval times, and imagined futures. The result is a language that rests in a temporal in-between that reveals the foreignness of English and undermines its monolingual and exclusionary dynamics. By attending to the temporal strategies through which Bergvall elaborates her poetics, I argue that the trilogy builds alternative imaginaries of language in a progressive utopian momentum that aims to rethink both possible futures and our contemporaneity
Art · Betweenness centrality · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Sociology · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics
| Highly cited | No |
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