Anthology Of Apologists And Detractors Of The Basque Language (Basque Classic Series, No. 2)

University of Nevada Press, July 2006. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Ex-library with usual marks and alost no use. No marks in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read if at all. . . . . . . . A thorough introduction is followed by texts from numerous authors presenting arguments on the excellence or inferiority of the Basque language. From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries . . . a number of Spanish and French authors made it their business to point out the barbarity and lack of literary development of the Basque language . . . On the other hand, the Basque apologists sought to legitimize the [language and foral system] through the creation of a construct, more or less mythical in essence, which with great frequency relied on the excellence of the Basque language for its justification . . . This anthology attempts to present the most important works of this secular polemic. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.