English Literature and Ancient Languages

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-921212-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 325 g

Literature in English is hardly ever entirely in English. Contact with other languages takes place, for example, whenever foreign languages are introduced, or if a native style is self-consciously developed, or when aspects of English are remade in the image of another language. Since the Renaissance, Latin and Greek have been an important presence in British poetry and prose. This is partly because of the importance of the ideals and ideologies founded and
elaborated on Roman and Greek models. Latin quotations and latinate English have always been ways to represent, scrutinize, or satirize the influential values associated with Rome. The importance of Latin and Greek is also due to the fact that they have helped to form and define a variety of British social
groups. Lawyers, Catholics, and British gentlement invested in Latin as one source of their distinction from non-professionals, from Protestants, and from the unleisured. British attitudes toward Greek and Latin have been highly charged because the animus that existed between groups has also been directed toward these languages themselves. English Literature and Ancient Languages is a study of literary uses of language contact, of English literature in conjunction with Latin and Greek.
While the book's emphasis is literary, that is formal and verbal, its goal is to discover how social interests and cultural ideas are, and are not, mediated through language.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and postgraduate students interested in the influence of Latin and Greek on British literature and culture since the Renaissance, and in the ways in which interests and ideas are mediated through language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haynes, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Haynes is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University.