Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

2013

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Publisher's Synopsis

This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation.

Book information

ISBN: 9780230224612
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2013
DEWEY: 823.9109112
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: viii, 235
Weight: 414g
Height: 221mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 19mm