Can language hide thoughts? This question, posed by the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1965 as the topic of its first essay competition, was taken up by the philologist Harald Weinrich, with far-ranging results. The most immediate was his claiming first prize with this volume's title essay, published the following year as Linguistik der Luge. Weinrich's influential essay, now in its sixth printing in Germany, is presented here for the first time in English, with an updated preface by the author and additional essays selected by him.
With wit and clarity, Weinrich...
Can language hide thoughts? This question, posed by the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1965 as the topic of its first essay competit...
The Persistence of Allegory Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner Jane K. Brown "An ambitious survey of a great deal of culture, attempting links and connections on a grand scale."--David Bevington, University of Chicago "A learned, fascinating book."--Choice In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater, a shift...
The Persistence of Allegory Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner Jane K. Brown "An ambitious survey of a great deal of culture, attempti...
