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Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe
Languages of the Night Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in TwentiethCentury Ireland and Europe
Author: Barry McCrea
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. Seán Ó Ríordáin in Ireland and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Italy reshaped minor languages to u...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300185157
ISBN-10: 0300185154
Publication Date: 3/31/2015
Pages: 200
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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