Prophecies of Language : : The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism / / Kristina Mendicino.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lit Z
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index