Studies in Romance Philology and Literature
Author : Mario Pei
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Mario Pei
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : James Patty
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813171938
" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Author : George Monteiro
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813132709
Author : Mario Pei
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Romance philology
ISBN :
Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110394332
The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and communities. Focusing on a wide range of Romance languages – from national languages to minoritised varieties – this volume explores questions concerning linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language contact, medium and genre, variation and change. It will interest researchers and policy-makers alike.
Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521281393
What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors, and teases out those elements which can be attributed to divergence from a common source and those which indicate convergence towards a common aim. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This volume will be an invaluable and authoritative guide for students and specialists alike.
Author : Doris Sommer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2004-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822385791
Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. Today’s global world has outgrown any one-to-one correlation between a people and a language; liberal democracies can either encourage difference or stifle it through exclusionary policies. Bilingual Aesthetics is Sommer’s passionate call for citizens and officials to cultivate difference and to realize that the precarious points of contact resulting from mismatches between languages, codes, and cultures are the lifeblood of democracy, as well as the stimulus for aesthetics and philosophy. Sommer encourages readers to entertain the creative possibilities inherent in multilingualism. With her characteristic wit and love of language, she focuses on humor—particularly bilingual jokes—as the place where tensions between and within cultures are played out. She draws on thinking about humor and language by a range of philosophers and others, including Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Mikhail Bakhtin. In declaring the merits of allowing for crossed signals, Sommer sends a clear message: Making room for more than one language is about value added, not about remediation. It is an expression of love for a contingent and changing world.
Author : Rupert T. Pickens
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Essays on many aspects of medieval French and Occitan literatures and Romance linguistics in tribute to Hans-Erich Keller, one of our most productive and wide-ranging scholars. As a group, the essays reflect the state of the art of medieval French and Occitan studies and Romance linguistics, with varied methodologies and varied conclusions.
Author : Mario Pei
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Romance philology
ISBN :
Author : Kristina Bedijs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110314754
This manual provides an extensive overview of the importance and use of Romance languages in the media, both in a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Its chapters discuss language in television and the new media, the language of advertising, or special cases such as translation platforms or subtitling. Separate chapters are dedicated to minority languages and smaller varieties such as Galician and Picard, and to methodological approaches such as linguistic discourse analysis and writing process research.