Seeing in Depth: The Practice of Bilingual Writing.

Abstract

Producing and reading a bilingual text, much like creating and viewing a stereoscopic image, involve a much more complex process of perception and decoding than do the writing and deciphering of monolingual one. This paper explores the practice of bilingual writing in a wide variety of texts, from cuneiform tablets and bilingual dictionnaries to comtemporary fiction and bilingual editions of text