Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

Taylor-Batty, J.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-07-26

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230224612

DOI: 10.1057/9781137367969

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 235