Juliette Taylor-Batty is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Leeds Trinity University, UK. Recent publications include articles on Jean Rhys, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Jolas, T.S. Eliot, and the inaugural issue of the Journal of Literary Multilingualism which she co-edited with Till Dembeck. She is the author of Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and is currently working on a book entitled M/Other Tongues: Multilingualism, Gender and Modernism.
Juliette Taylor-Batty
Contributions
Hope Mirrlees, the Holophrase, and Colonial Linguistics
“I want a holophrase.” The opening of Hope Mirrlees’s Paris has provided a critical entry to this difficult poem for many critics and readers, ever since Julia Briggs’s notes informed us that the concept derives from Jane Harrison’s Themis.