Barry Mccrea

Languages of the Night (eBook, PDF)

Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the sudden decline of old rural vernaculars - such as French patois, Italian dialects, and the Irish language - caused these languages to become the objects of powerful longings and projections that were formative of modernist writing. Sean O Riordain in Ireland and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Italy reshaped minor languages to use as private idioms of poetry; the revivalist conception of Irish as a lost, perfect language deeply affected the work of James Joyce; the disappearing dialects of northern France seemed to Marcel Proust to offer an escape from time itself. Drawing on a broad range of linguistic and cultural examples to present a major reevaluation of the origins and meaning of European literary modernism, Barry McCrea shows how the vanishing languages of the European countryside influenced metropolitan literary culture in fundamental ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780300190564
• Artikelnr.: 61786082