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

by Barry McCrea

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In the first decades of the twentieth century, rural populations throughout Europe changed the language they used in everyday life, abandoning their traditional vernaculars--such as French patois, local Italian dialects, and the Irish language--in favor of major metropolitan languages such as French, Italian, and English. .

In this book, Barry McCrea argues that the sudden linguistic homogenization of the European countryside was a key impulse...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300185154

ISBN13:9780300185157

Release Date:April 2015

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

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Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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