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Prophecies of language : the confusion of tongues in German Romanticism /

The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This text retraces the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy, not in the sense of tell...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mendicino, Kristina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Colección:Lit z.
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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.