{"product_id":"languages-of-the-night-minor-languages-and-the-literary-imagination-in-twentieth-century-ireland-and-europe-9780300185157","title":"Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barry McCrea\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this book, Barry McCrea argues that the sudden linguistic homogenization of the European countryside was a key impulse in the development of literary modernism. The decline of rural vernaculars caused these languages to become the objects of powerful longings and projections. Seán Ó Ríordáin in Ireland and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Italy reshaped minor languages for use as private idioms of poetry; the revivalist idealization of Irish as a lost utopian 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on a broad range of linguistic and cultural examples to present a major reevaluation of the sources and meanings of European literary modernism, Barry McCrea shows how metropolitan literary culture was fundamentally shaped by the vanishing vernaculars of the European countryside.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46486356099223,"sku":"9780300185157","price":6168.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780300185157.jpg?v=1766330239","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/languages-of-the-night-minor-languages-and-the-literary-imagination-in-twentieth-century-ireland-and-europe-9780300185157","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}