Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Juliette Taylor-Batty is Associate Principal Lecturer in English at Leeds Trinity University, UK. She has published articles on Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov and Rushdie and is the co-author of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Modernism and Babel 2. Representing Languages in Modernist Fiction 3. Writing in Translation: Jean Rhys's Paris Fiction 4. Protean mutations: James Joyce's Ulysses 5. French (de)Composition: Samuel Beckett's Trilogy

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• Authors: J Taylor-Batty, J. Taylor-Batty, Juliette Taylor-Batty
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349309573
• ISBN: 978-1-349-30957-3
• No. of pages: 243
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Linguistics, The arts: general issues, Fiction, Arts, Linguistics, general, Literature: history & criticism, Language: history & general works, Literary theory, World Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature