Minority Language Writers in the Wake of World War One - A Case Study of Four European Authors (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)

This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian, Welsh, Scots and Breton. The author examines the different strategies employed by the four writers to create distinctive literary fields for their languages in the interwar era when self-determination had been promised to national minorities, finding that each had to make some degree of a step backwards into the past to enable them to make a leap forward. The book also discusses the problems resulting from this oscillation between traditionalism and modernism, drawing on concepts such as Pascale Casanova's 'litteratures combatives' to make sense of these minority languages and communities within the wider European context. This study will be of interest to students and scholars of minority languages - particularly the four explored here - as well as twentieth-century and comparative literature, multilingualism, and language policy.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Jelle Krol
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	346
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-052042-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	3-03-052042-0
Barcode:	9783030520427

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