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Nina Cassian’s Spargan – A linguistic perspective

Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In the centennial year since Nina Cassian's birth and a decade after her passing, this article delves into her Spargan poems. Drawing comparisons with well-established nonsense verse traditions, this article argues that Spargan is not a constructed language but rather a variety of Romanian-sounding speech. While Spargan poems maintain Romanian prosody and syntactic structures,
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406625539
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