Language And Meaning In The Renaissance

Author : Richard Waswo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858542
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Meaning in the Renaissance written by Richard Waswo and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo relates present-day literary concerns to Renaissance thought about the connections between language and meaning. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003628
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance written by Christopher S. Celenza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.

Author : Glyn P. Norton
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 2600331123
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ideology and Language of Translation in Renaissance France and their humanist antecedents written by Glyn P. Norton and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage se propose d'analyser et de définir comment a été ressenti, et théorisé, à la Renaissance, cet exercice particulier d'interprétation qu'est la traduction. On a, d'un côté, le mythe de la traduction de la Bible par les Septante, qui dit que les septante traducteurs, inspirés par le texte hébreu lui-même, produisirent isolément chacun mot à mot le même texte grec ; d'autre part il y a la réalité de l'acte de traduire, dont on s'aperçoit bien qu'il est toujours une interprétation, que le texte est aussi vivant que sont vivants, et différents, les gens par qui la traduction est faite et ceux à qui elle est destinée. De cette nature contradictoire, les différentes théories humanistes sont le reflet. Un passionnant débat philosophique autant que linguistique.

Author : Nancy S. Struever
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400872294
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of History in the Renaissance written by Nancy S. Struever and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge and thus to the definition of historical reality, while linguistic competence gives insights into the relation of ideas and action. Within the framework of these ideas, and drawing on recent work in linguistic theory, including that of the French structuralists. Professor Struever studies the major shift in attitudes toward language and history which the Renaissance represents. One of the essential innovations of Renaissance Humanism is the substitution of rhetoric for dialectic as the dominant language discipline; rhetoric gives the Humanists their cohesion as a lay intellectual elite, as well as the force and direction of their thought. The author accepts the current trend in classical studies, the rehabilitation of the Sophists which finds its source in Nietzsche and includes the work of Rostagni, Untersteiner, and Buccellato, to reinstate rhetoric as the historical vehicle of Sophistic insight. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Richard Stemp
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781844833221
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Language of the Renaissance written by Richard Stemp and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificently illustrated throughout, and with a six-color gold-foil cover, this remarkable book provides an all-encompassing survey of the literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts of the Renaissance.

Author : Judith H. Anderson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804726313
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words That Matter written by Judith H. Anderson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation. Examining a wide range of historical sources?treatises, grammars, poems, plays, rhetorics, logics, dictionaries, and sermons?the author investigates how words matter as currency or memento, graphic symbol or template, icon or topos.

Author : Lodi Nauta
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042917576
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Cultural Change written by Lodi Nauta and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is common wisdom that language is culturally embedded. Cultural change is often accompanied by a change in idiom, in language or in ideas about language. No period serves as a better example of the formative influence of language on culture than the Renaissance. With the advent of humanism new modes of speaking and writing arose. But not only did classical Latin become the paradigm of clear and elegant writing, it also gave rise to new ideas about language and the teaching of it. Some scholars have argued that the cultural paradigm shift from scholasticism to humanism was causally determined by the rediscovery, study and emulation of the classical language, for learning a new language opens up new possibilities for exploring and describing one's perceptions, thoughts and beliefs. However, the vernacular traditions too rose to prominence and vied with Latin for cultural prestige. This volume, number XXIV in the series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at a workshop on language and cultural change held in Groningen in February 2004. Ten specialists explore the multifarious ways in which language contributed to the shaping of Renaissance culture. They discuss themes such as the relationship between medieval and classical Latin, between Latin and the vernacular, between humanist and scholastic conceptions of language and grammar, translation from Latin into the vernacular, Jewish ideas about different kinds of Hebrew, and shifting ideas on the power and limits of language in the articulation of truth and divine wisdom. There are essays on major thinkers such as Nicholas of Cusa and Leonardo Bruni, but also on less well-known figures and texts. The volume as a whole hopes to contribute to a deeper understanding of the highly complex interplay between language and culture in the transition period between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : Ann Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199249879
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn written by Ann Moss and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an entirely new look at an era of radical change in the history of West European thought, the period between 1480 and 1540, mainly in France and Germany. The book's main thesis is that the Latin language turn was not only concurrent with other aspects of change, but was a fundamental instrument in reconfiguring horizons of thought, reformulating paradigms of argument, and rearticulating the relationship between fiction and truth.

Author : Susanne Krebs
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640437500
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Printing on the Development of the English Language During the Period of the Renaissance written by Susanne Krebs and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Koblenz-Landau (Anglistik), course: The Story of English, language: English, abstract: The 15th century must be seen as the age of innovation in Europe. For the spread of Renaissance culture as we know it today, several factors were decisive: advances in the fields of arts (e.g. architecture, painting and literature), science (e.g. geography, astronomy and medicine), economy (e.g. flourishing international trade) and of course technology, as the example of the printing press shows. By definition "The printing press is a mechanical device for printing many copies of a text on rectangular sheets of paper." () This definition might give the impression we are dealing with a simple gadget and a rather unspectacular procedure, but until 1450, "the original method of printing was block printing, pressing sheets of paper into individually carved wooden blocks" (), which would not last very long because of the pressure exercised upon them during the process of printing. Knowing this, the invention of the printing press seems even more valuable, as the former method described here required a lot of energy, money and time and yielded a relatively ridiculous output. A less-costly method of producing printed material needed to be found and the former goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468) from Mainz in Germany is acknowledged as the pioneer in this field. He experimented with metal alloy and finally created movable types which could be used and reused for printing without the effect of wearing down like the wooden material. Immediately, the printing press had the effect of multiplying the output and cutting the costs of books, thus making information available to a much larger part of the population. So it can be said that the printing press initiated an "infor

Author : Richard Stemp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844834150
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Language of the Renaissance written by Richard Stemp and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the mind of the Renaissance artist, meaning took shape through symbols: everything from peacocks to centaurs conveyed a message. Often these meanings drew ona traditonal symbolic vocabulary, a common language available to educated people of the time but largely lost to modern viewers. Occasionally a painter, sculptor or architect encoded a more specific meaning in a canvas or a text, a bust or a building - perhaps even an explosive political statement or an encrypted expression of heretical faith. The Secret Language of the Renaissance peels back these layers of meaning in three distinct, detailed sections. Part One is a vivid immersion in the culture of this remarkable period, tracing the profusion of innovations in literature, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts that date to this time. Part Two offers a wide-ranging guide to the essential elements of symbolic language in Renaissance art. Part Three, the heart of the book, analyzes more than 40 works grouped around a dozen themes. Each work is shown in full colour... then... each is taken apart to reveal the symbols it contains and interpret their enigmatic meaning." - dust jacket blurb.