Author: Henry R. ImmerwahrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Form and Thought in Herodotus
Author: Henry R. ImmerwahrPhilological Monographs
Author: Philosophical Monographs
Author: Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Book III
Author: Titus Lucretius CarusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107002117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius' account of why death does not matter.
Tennyson's Philological Medievalism
Author: Sarah WeaverPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843846616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Considers Tennyson's poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology. How do words come to mean what they mean, and how can we hope to use them precisely when they are constantly changing? The urge to find a word's meaning through its etymology is an old and enduring one, gaining new momentum in the nineteenth century as advocates of the so-called "new philology" argued that major revelations were to be found within the biographies of everyday expressions. Developing hand in hand with a growing national interest in all things "Anglo-Saxon", language study simultaneously seemed to offer a pathway to the roots of English culture and to illuminate human history on a grand scale. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) came of age in the midst of this exploding popularity of both Anglo-Saxonism and philology, and he did so among men who were to be responsible for advancing both fields. This study places this preeminent Victorian poet in the context of the period's preoccupation with the history of language. It shows that the intellectual milieu that surrounded him encouraged him to revive archaic words and to reveal the literal metaphors lurking within his words. Moreover, his familiarity with past forms of English enabled him to arrange the connotations of his vocabulary for precise effect. Surveying his techniques at every scale, from individual vowels to narratives, this book argues that Tennyson held a more optimistic view of language than scholars have generally supposed, and shows the sophistication of his philological techniques.
The Systemic View as a Basis for Philological Thought
Author: Olga ValentinovaPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793647720
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In The Systemic View as a Basis for Philological Thought, Olga Valentinova, Vladimir Denisenko, Sergey Preobrazhenskii, andMikhail Rybakov explore the interrelation of language material, structure, and functions in various subjects of philological research, such as grammatical systems of language, semantics, linguistic personality, literary text, and formal aspects of verse. Their systemic approach is rooted in the theories of Wilhelm von Humboldt and his followers, including Russian scholars Alexander Potebnya, Gustav Shpet, and more recently Gennadii Prokop’evichMel’nikov (1928–2000). The authors use the concept of systematicity as an opportunity to see the studied whole in development, to show and explain the functional interaction of linear and supra-linear connections, to explain their interdependence, and to predict further changes within the system. This book displays the scientific potential of the systemic approach to linguistics and related spheres, employing the framework of systematicity to revise the modern trends of philology and to map out an alternative paradigm for linguistic and philological thought that could restore the status of philology as a holistic science.
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900442461X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography offers the first comprehensive introduction and scholarly guide to the cultural practice and literary genre of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire.
Hindu Ethics
Author: Roy W. PerrettPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824820855
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This philosophical study offers a representation of the logical structure of classical Hindu ethics and argues for the availability of at least the core of this ethical system for Westerners.
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 83
Author: Albert HenrichsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674379305
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume of fourteen articles includes "The Bee Maidens of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes," by Susan Scheinberg; "Eleatic Conventionalism and Philolaus on the Conditions of Thought," by Martha Craven Nussbaum; "The Basis of Stoic Ethics," by Nicholas P. White; "New Comedy, Callimachus, and Roman Poetry," by Richard F. Thomas; "On Cicero's Speeches," by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and "Ummidius Quadratus, Capax Imperii," by Ronald Syme.
Philosophical Monographs
Author: Howard C. WarrenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description