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Autore |
Erben Patrick M (Patrick Michael) |
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Titolo |
A harmony of the spirits : translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania / / Patrick M. Erben |
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Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-8078-3819-5 |
1-4696-0134-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Collana |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and languages - Variation |
Language and culture - United States |
Electronic books. |
Pennsylvania History |
Pennsylvania Languages |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Editorial Note; Introduction: "Unter der Leitung seines Geistes": Spiritual Translation in Early America; One: Reversing the Heritage of Babel: Visions of Religious and Linguistic Renewal in Seventeenth-Century Europe; Two: Translating Pennsylvania: Visions of Spiritual Community in Promotional Literature; Three: Debating Pennsylvania: Religious and Linguistic Diversity and Difference; Four: "Honey-Combs" and "Paper-Hives": Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Gathering of a Translingual Community of Letters |
Five: A Hidden Voice Amplified: Music, Mysticism, and TranslationSix: "What Will Become of Pennsylvania?": War, Community, and the Language of Suffering for Peace; Coda: Confusio Linguarum Redux: Moravian Missions, Multilingualism, and the Search for a Spiritual Language; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. This book challenges the long-standing historical myth - first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin - that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. It deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the 'holy experiment'. |
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