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Palgrave MacMillan Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction 2013 Edition by J. Taylor-Batty
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. 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