Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Juliette Taylor-Batty

   Pages 1-15

3. Modernism and Babel

   • Juliette Taylor-Batty

   Pages 16-38

4. Representing Languages in Modernist Fiction

   • Juliette Taylor-Batty

   Pages 39-79

5. Writing in Translation: Jean Rhys’s Paris Fiction

   • Juliette Taylor-Batty

   Pages 80-112

6. Protean Mutations: James Joyce’s Ulysses

   • Juliette Taylor-Batty

   Pages 113-145

7. French (De)composition: Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy

   • Juliette Taylor-Batty

   Pages 146-179

8. Back Matter

   Pages 180-235

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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.

• Multilingualism
• Modernism
• Language
• Beckett
• fiction
• French
• multilingual

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.

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