Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

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2013
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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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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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 23 Aug 2013
ISBN 10: 023022461X
ISBN 13: 9780230224612

Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

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$120.69

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