Book Description
Professor Forster studies poetry written in languages other than the poet's native tongue to survey multilingualism and its effects on literature.
Author : Leonard Forster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521077664
Professor Forster studies poetry written in languages other than the poet's native tongue to survey multilingualism and its effects on literature.
Author : Leonard Wilson Forster
Publisher :
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Leonard Forster
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Multilingualism and literature
ISBN :
Author : Leonard Wilson Forster
Publisher :
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Multilingualism and literature
ISBN :
Author : John K. Hale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521583535
Milton's poetry is one of the glories of the English language, and yet it owes everything to Milton's widespread knowledge of other languages: he knew ten, wrote in four, and translated from five. In Milton's Languages, John K. Hale first examines Milton's language-related arts in verse-composition, translations, annotations of Greek poets, Latin prose and political polemic, giving all relevant texts in the original and in translation. Hale then traces the impact of Milton's multilingualism on his major English poems. Many vexed questions of Milton studies are illuminated by this approach, including his sense of vocation, his attitude to print and publicity, the supposed blemish of Latinism in his poetry, and his response to his literary predecessors. Throughout this full-length study of Milton's use of languages, Hale argues convincingly that it is only by understanding Milton's choice among languages that we can grasp where Milton's own unique English originated.
Author : Abdelfattah Kilito
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0811224945
A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a Borgesian flair for riddles, stories, and subtle scholarly distinctions, Kilito presents an assortment of discussions related to Adam’s tongue, including translation, comparative religion, and lexicography: for example, how, from Babel onward, can we explain the plurality of language? Or can Adam’s poetry be judged aesthetically, the same as any other poem? Drawing from the commentators of the Koran to Walter Benjamin, from the esoteric speculations of Judaism to Herodotus, The Tongue of Adam is a nimble book about the mysterious rise of humankind’s multilingualism.
Author : Katie Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 152756147X
This carefully curated collection of essays charts interactions between majority languages (including English, French, German, Italian and Japanese) and minority dialects or languages pushed to the margins (including Arabic, Bengali, Esperanto, Neapolitan and Welsh) through a series of case studies of leading modern and contemporary cultural producers. The contributors, who work and study across the globe, extend critical understanding of literary multilingualism to the subjects of migration and the exophonic, self-translation and the aesthetics of interlinguistic bricolage, language death and language perseveration, and power in linguistic hierarchies in (post-)colonial contexts. Their subjects include the authors Julia Alvarez, Elena Ferrante, Jonathan Franzen, Amélie Nothomb, Ali Smith, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, the film-maker Ulrike Ottinger, and the anonymous performers of Griko. The volume will be of interest to students of creative writing, literature, translation, and sociolinguistics.
Author : Leonard Wilson Forster
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Horng Hsy
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780814212295
Analyzes the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Margery Kempe and more to illustrate how languages commingled in late medieval and early modern cities.
Author : Catherine Léglu
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271036729
"Explores the ways in which vernacular works composed in Occitan, Catalan, and French between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries narrate multilingualism and its apparent opponent, the mother tongue. These encounters are narrated through literary motifs of love, incest, disguise, and travel"--Provided by publisher.