{"product_id":"9780300190564","title":"Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe","description":"This book argues that the sudden decline of old rural vernaculars – such as French patois, Italian dialects, and the Irish language – caused these languages to become the objects of powerful longings and projections that were formative of modernist writing. Seán Ó Ríordáin in Ireland and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Italy reshaped minor languages to use as private idioms of poetry; the revivalist conception of Irish as a lost, perfect 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. 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 the vanishing languages of the European countryside influenced metropolitan literary culture in fundamental ways. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125144076528,"sku":"9780300190564","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300190564_p0.jpg?v=1763670229","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300190564","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}