The Dialect Poetry of Nino Martoglio: Sociolinguistic Issues in a Literary Context by Scaglione, Aldo

The Dialect Poetry of Nino Martoglio: Sociolinguistic Issues in a Literary Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820417035)

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The Dialect Poetry of Nino Martoglio: Sociolinguistic Issues in a Literary Context by Scaglione, Aldo

The Dialect Poetry of Nino Martoglio: Sociolinguistic Issues in a Literary Context

$65.80
The Dialect Poetry of Nino Martoglio: Sociolinguistic Issues in a Literary Context by Scaglione, Aldo

The Dialect Poetry of Nino Martoglio: Sociolinguistic Issues in a Literary Context

$65.80
Format: Hardcover
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The Sicilian dialect poet, Nino Martoglio (1870-1921), was also a playwright-director who is best known for his instrumental role in Luigi Pirandello's theatrical career, and for his film, Sperduti nel buio (1914), a masterpiece of Italian Naturalism. Pirandello regarded Martoglio's sizable corpus of dialect poetry as comparable to the works of Salvatore Di Giacomo and Trilussa. This study explores Martoglio's keen insight into the complex relationship between standard language and dialect in post-unification Catania, and how this linguistic situation is instantiated in his poetry. Diglossia, code interaction, hybrid code, and register clash are some of the devices which the Aetnean poet uses to convey the ethos of the Catanese folk in his dialect verses.

Author: Aldo Scaglione,Antonio Scuderi
ISBN-10: 0820417033
ISBN-13: 9780820417035
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1992
Pages: 109
Format: Hardcover
By Aldo Scaglione
By Aldo Scaglione
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The Author: Antonio Scuderi received his M.A. from the Italian School of Middlebury College and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is presently an assistant professor at the Ohio State University.

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