Renaissance Go-betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern EuropeAndreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels The volume analyses some of the travelling and bridge-building activities that went on in Renaissance Europe, mainly but not exclusively across the Channel, true to Montaigne's epoch-making program of describing 'the passage'. Its emphasis on Anglo-Continental relations ensures a firm basis in English literature, but its particular appeal lies in its European point of view, and in the perspectives it opens up into other areas of early modern culture, such as pictorial art, philosophy, and economics. The multiple implications of the go-between concept make for structured diversity. The chapters of this book are arranged in three stages. Part 1 ('Mediators') focuses on influential go-betweens, both as groups, like the translators, and as individual mediators. The second part of this book ('Mediations') is concerned with individual acts of mediation, and with the 'mental topographies' they presuppose, reflect and redraw in their turn. Part 3 ('Representations') looks at the role of exemplary intermediaries and the workings of mediation represented on the early modern English stage. Key features
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... angels and learn the divine language from them . He saw an encouraging example of such ' gifting ' in the Old Testament . The gift he craved was similar to Enoch's privilege of learning the angelic language and being ' translated ' by ...
... Angels in America , an angel crashes through the ceiling of the apartment occupied by Prior Walter , bringing down bits of plaster , lathe and wiring . The effect on Prior is understandably traumatic . In his notes to the second play ...
... Angel's ap- pearance , which could have signalled a liberating transformation , turns out to be ominous . She calls for stasis . The angels , deserted by God , can no longer stand the suffering of humanity , which they are unable to ...
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ANDREAS HÖFELE WERNER VON KOPPENFELS | 1 |
Mediators | 11 |
The Renaissance Translator as GoBetween | 17 |
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