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Prophecies of Language : The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism by Assistant Professor of German Studies Kristina Mendicino

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Author: Assistant Professor of German Studies Kristina Mendicino
Number of Pages: 304 pages
Published Date: 02 Jan 2017
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780823274024
File size: 39 Mb
File Name: Prophecies.of.Language.The.Confusion.of.Tongues.in.German.Romanticism.pdf
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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 sense of telling future events but in the sense of speaking in the place of another. In prophetic speech, the confusion of tongues repeats, each time anew, as language takes place unpredictably in more than one voice and more than one tongue at once. Through readings of Hegel, Humboldt, Schlegel, and Holderlin, Mendicino shows how, when one questions the presupposition that these major texts are composed by individual authors in one tongue, the works disclose more than a monoglot reading yields, namely the "plus" of their linguistic plurality. Each chapter also advocates for a philology that, in and through an inclination toward language, takes neither its unity nor its structure for granted but allows itself to be most profoundly affected, addressed--and afflicted--by it."

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