The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature

by Michael North

Book Overview

The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism.

Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect speakers in their work. In doing so, they made possible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195122917
• ISBN13: 9780195122916
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 6.1"