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Paperback Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism Book

ISBN: 0823274020

ISBN13: 9780823274024

Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism

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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--most often unbeknownst to the speaker herself. In prophetic speech,...

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