{"product_id":"languages-of-the-night-barry-mccrea-9780300185157","title":"Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe","description":"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. . \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. Se?n ? R?ord?in 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry McCrea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300185154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300185157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/17\/2015 pg. 88","brand":"Barry McCrea","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46489209340159,"sku":"9780300185157","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c740666d-b0e1-45e2-89b7-0d5aeebb7acd.jpg?v=1736952894","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/languages-of-the-night-barry-mccrea-9780300185157","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}