Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

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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.Publication Year: 2013Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan UKFormat: PWeight (Gram): 3115 Show more