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Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

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Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1349309575
ISBN13: 9781349309573
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 1 2013
Pages: 235
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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