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Upton Sinclair : the Lithuanian Jungle : upon the centenary of The Jungle (1905 and 1906) by Upton Sinclair /
In his legendary novel The Jungle (1905 and 1906), Upton Sinclair included a conspicuous number of Lithuanian words, phrases and surnames. This volume is the first attempt to analyze aspects of Lithuanian linguistic and historical data from The Jungle . Sinclair discovered the Lithuanian language in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Colección: | On the boundary of two worlds ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In his legendary novel The Jungle (1905 and 1906), Upton Sinclair included a conspicuous number of Lithuanian words, phrases and surnames. This volume is the first attempt to analyze aspects of Lithuanian linguistic and historical data from The Jungle . Sinclair discovered the Lithuanian language in Chicago and explored it with pleasure. He even confessed to having sang in Lithuanian. If you look for "a Lithuanian linguist" working in field-research conditions in Chicago's Back of the Yards--there is Upton Sinclair! The book targets Sinclair's motives for choosing Lithuanian characters, his sou. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (102 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-94) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423789105 9781423789109 9789401202404 9401202400 |