Prophecies of Language : The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism /

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The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy, not in the se...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mendicino, Kristina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Lit z.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Translating and interpreting.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism > Germany.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The pitfalls of translating philosophy : or, the languages of G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit
  • Language at an impasse, in passing : Wilhelm von Humboldt's Agamemnon translation
  • Prophecy, spoken otherwise : in the language of Aeschylus's Cassandra
  • Prophetic poetry, ad infinitum : Friedrich Schlegel's Daybreak
  • Empedocles, empyrically speaking-- : Friedrich Hölderlin's Tragic öde
  • Disclosure.

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