Introduction: the great silence in Carrowliam Beg -- Language of the dead: the Irish language in the twentieth century -- The queer linguistic utopia of Pier Paolo Pasolini -- Seán " Ríordáin's private language -- The great silence in Combray: Proust and patois.
Summary:
"This provocative book shows how the mass abandonment of rural vernaculars (such as the Irish language, Italian dialects, and French patois) shaped European literary modernism. In Ireland and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Italy reshaped minor languages as experimental poetic idioms; the decline of the Irish language deeply affected the work of James Joyce; the disappearing dialects of northern France were a source of complex inspiration for Marcel Proust. 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 a genuinely comparative analysis can force us to rethink national literary traditions"-- Provided by publisher.
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