Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

by Juliette Taylor-Batty

Book Overview

This book demonstrates that, rather than being an exceptional or unusual phenomenon, multilingualism is fundamental to modernist fiction. Focusing on the use of different languages by key modernist writers including D.H. Lawrence, Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, Juliette Taylor-Batty examines the textual representation of interlingual encounters, the stylisation of translational discourse, the use...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023022461X
• ISBN13: 9780230224612
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.8"