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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mendicino, Kristina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edition:First edition.
Series:Lit z.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Translating and interpreting.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism > Germany.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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