Renaissance Go-Betweens
Subtitle: Cultural Exchange In Early Modern Europe (Spectrum Literature)
Contributors: Andreas Hofele (Editor); Werner Von Koppenfels (Editor)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9783110182156
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; European literature; English literature; Renaissance, 1450-1600; History; History: World; Europe; Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Early modern, 1500-1700; Renaissance; Appreciation; European influences; History and criticism
First sentence: One important characteristic of the Renaissance, according to Mikhail Bak-htin, was what he called - in English translation, of course - the 'interanimation' of languages, in other words a sharper consciousness of the differences between languages, linked to increasing linguistic inventiveness and playfulness.