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How Bilingual Novelists Utilize their Linguistic Knowledge: Towards a Typology of the Contemporary ‘Modern Languages Novel’ in English

Julian Preece Orcid Logo, Aled Rees

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Swansea University Authors: Julian Preece Orcid Logo, Aled Rees

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We present in survey form a typology of a new sub-genre we term the English 'Modern Languages Novel', identifying five overlapping categories in a large sample of fiction, most of it by authors whose work has been submitted to the Booker or Man-Booker Prize over fifty years between 1969 an...

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ISSN: 2052-5397
Published: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2021
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