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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 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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mendicino, Kristina (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Lit z.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.