The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature.
The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultural institutions and promoting new methods of instruction. Butler examines representations of language as war in texts written in Latin, French, and German...
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
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| Език: | English |
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Ashgate Gower
2010.
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Съдържание:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Civil War in the Republic of Letters
- 1 Frontiers and First Causes: Humanism, Renaissance, Reformation, and the Language War
- 2 The Language War and Absolutist Eloquence
- 3 Greatness Lost and Regained: Dialectic of the German Language War
- Conclusion: Fighting Words and the Liberal Arts
- Bibliography
- Index.