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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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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 | |
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: | 979-88-908424-1-1 |
0-8078-3819-5 | |
1-4696-0134-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910788219303321 |
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