A harmony of the spirits : translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania / / Patrick M. Erben

• Autore: Erben Patrick M (Patrick Michael)
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 409.748/09033
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Variation; Language and culture - United States
• Soggetto geografico: Pennsylvania History; Pennsylvania Languages
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; V; W; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 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'.
• Titolo autorizzato: A harmony of the spirits
• ISBN: 0-8078-3819-5; 1-4696-0134-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463407603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia