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The Dialect of Modernism

Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature

The Dialect of Modernism( )
Author: North, Michael
Series title:Race and American Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-535910-7
Publication Date:Aug 1994
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Ebook
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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 madepossible the most radical representational strategies of...
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