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unusual facts about Vernacular literature


Vernacular literature

Some authors have written in invented vernacular; examples of such novels include the futuristic literary novels A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and Boxy an Star by Daren King.



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Book of Taliesin

Many poems in the collection allude to Christian and Latin texts as well as native British tradition, and the book contains the earliest mention in any Western post-classical vernacular literature of the feats of Hercules and Alexander the Great.

Old Mandarin

New genres of vernacular literature such as the qu and sanqu appeared, as well as descriptions of contemporary language that revealed how much the language had changed.

New genres of vernacular literature were based on this language, including verse, drama and story forms, such as the qu and sanqu.