Recorded December 11, 2018.

A public lecture by visiting Trinity Long Room Hub fellow Professor Barry McCrea (Notre Dame) on Language Change and Social Class in the Novel.

The lecture will compare the ways minor languages and socio-economic class interact as narrative elements in a variety of European authors, including Joyce, Proust, Edna O'Brien, Flann O'Brien, Ó Cadhain, Dickens, Ferrante

About Barry McCrea

Barry McCrea is a novelist and scholar of modern European, Latin American, and Irish literature. He most recent book is Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe (Yale University Press, 2015), which won the American Comparative Literature Association’s René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016. He is the author of The First Verse, a novel, winner of a number of awards including the 2006 Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and a Barnes and Noble "Discover" prize, and of In the Company of Strangers: Narrative and Family in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce and Proust (Columbia University Press, 2011), which won the Yale Heyman Prize for scholarship in the humanities.Professor McCrea holds has a BA in Romance languages from Trinity College Dublin, and a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton. Before joining Notre Dame, he taught comparative literature at Yale University, where he was appointed full professor in 2012. Professor McCrea teaches fall semesters in the Rome and Dublin Global Gateways and spring semesters on campus.

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