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

by Barry McCrea

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"