LINGUIST List 14.1334

Fri May 9 2003

Books: Ling & Literature, Plautdietsch: Neufeld

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. LINCOM.EUROPA, Collected Plautdietsch Poems (Jesaumelde Plautdietsche Jedichte)

Title: Collected Plautdietsch Poems (Jesaumelde Plautdietsche
 Jedichte) and Selected Plautdietsch Stories
Series Title: LINCOM Language Texts 01
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Lincom GmbH 
 http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/		 
			
Book URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/7934.htm

Author: Eldo Neufeld				

Paperback: ISBN: 3895867934, Pages: 146, Price: USD 43.70 / EUR 38
			
Abstract:

The fascination with versifying stem's from the author's elementary
school years in the Kansas public school system of the 1930s. Although
the early efforts were nothing more than collections of unconscious
iambic and trochaic feet, compliments from teachers, parents, and
friends lent sufficient encouragement to keep the fascination alive.

The present collection consists primarily of the efforts of recent
years, all earlier examples having unfortunately disappeared with the
passage of time. The emotions, the inner and outer aspects of the
author's young life with which these poems deal, were created and
shaped during the Great Depression years of the 1930s. These
experiences, heightened by the memory of the economic poverty and
hardships of his family situation, caused a deep seriousness to
develop in his psyche and most of the poems clearly reflect that.

Lingfield(s): Germanic linguistics (Ling & Literature)
		Ling & Literature
			 
Subject Language(s): Plautdietsch (Language Code: GRN)

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)


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