Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction [electronic resource] /
Taylor-Batty, J.author.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modernism and Babel -- Representing languages in modernist's fiction -- Writing in translation: Jean Rhys's Paris fiction -- Protean mutations: James Joyce's Ulysses -- French (de)composition: Samuel Beckett's trilogy.
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.
Literature   .
Linguistics.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature—Philosophy.
Arts.
Fiction.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Linguistics, general.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
Arts.
Fiction.