| Contents |
Introduction: The Great Silence in Carrowliam Beg -- Language Loss in Twentieth-Century Western Europe -- White Martyrdom -- Language of the Dead: The Irish Language in the Twentieth Century -- James Joyce and the Irish Language -- Irishes of the Twentieth Century -- Modern Literature in Irish: The Queer Language Utopia of Pier Paolo Pasolini -- The Private Language of Seán " Ríordáin 000 The Burial of English -- Private Languages: Seán " Ríordáin's 'Esperanto' and Benedetto Croce -- Return Again: The Great Silence in Combray: Proust and Patois. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-169) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014028310 |
| ISBN | 9780300185157 (hardback) |
