The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ashgate Gower 2010
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Beschreibung: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
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; the study, by exploring the relationship between tradition and innovation, also illuminates the shift from a Latin-based understanding of learning to the acceptance of vernacular erudition and the emergence of national literatures
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