Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

by J. Taylor-Batty

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349309573
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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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