Multilingualism and the Twentieth-Century Novel Polyglot Passages /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, James Reay (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:VII, 202 p. 1 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:New Comparisons in World Literature,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05810-4
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Multilingualism, Modernism and the Novel
  • 2. Post/Colonial Linguistics: Language Effects and Empire in Heart of Darkness and Nostromo
  • 3. Lost for Words in London and Paris: Language Performance in Jean Rhys's Cities
  • 4. Self, Dialect and Dialogue: The Multilingual Modernism of Wilson Harris
  • 5. The Dangerous Multilingualism of Junot Díaz
  • 6. Conclusion: The Anglophone Novel and the Threshold of Capacity.