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dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-15T07:35:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-15T07:35:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1998 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Briffa, C. (1998). Maltese literature : the pangs of birth. In: S. J. A. Clews (ed.), The Malta Year Book 1998. Malta: De La SaIle Brothers Publications, pp. 465-474. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/61767 | - |
dc.description.abstract | One can hardly do any justice to Maltese literature in just one paper. So I will deal with the pangs of birth and early development of Maltese literature and stop with the birth of the Maltese novel which will take us to the threshold of the 20th century. A language and its people are intimately and inextricably bound together so that a language lives and develops with its people, and its greatness rests upon its users and their attitude towards it. Such an attitude comes out in literature, because the language of a past era gathers its identity from the character and quality of its literature. Official documents and notarial deeds yield shelves of secrets to the researcher, be he a historian, a philologist, or a lexicographer, but it is in literature that a language manifests its potential to transform a people's emotions and thoughts into an expressive form conveying a memorable experience. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | De La SaIle Brothers Publications | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Maltese literature -- History and criticism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Maltese literature -- 17th century | en_GB |
dc.subject | Maltese literature -- 18th century | en_GB |
dc.subject | Maltese literature -- 19th century | en_GB |
dc.title | Maltese literature : the pangs of birth | en_GB |
dc.type | bookPart | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Briffa, Charles | - |
Appears in Collections: | Malta Yearbook : 1998 |
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