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Dieses Buch ist sehr gut geschrieben, mein Englisch-Wortschatz ist dadurch auch gestiegen. Durch die gute Schreibweise des Autors kann man sich richtig in die Hauptfiguren einfühlen und spielt in dem Stück fast schon mit. Auch die Emotionen während des ganzen Buches habe ich mitgemacht. Ich finde das Buch super und empfehle es w... Dieses Buch ist sehr gut geschrieben, mein Englisch-Wortschatz ist dadurch auch gestiegen. Durch die gute Schreibweise des Autors kann man sich richtig in die Hauptfiguren einfühlen und spielt in dem Stück fast schon mit. Auch die Emotionen während des ganzen Buches habe ich mitgemacht. Ich finde das Buch super und empfehle es weiter.
Battle Of The Bks
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Beschreibung
"The Battle of the Books" is the name of a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. Because of the satire, "The Battle of the Books" has become a term for the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
In France at the end of the seventeenth century, a minor furore arose over the question of whether contemporary learning had surpassed what was known by those in Classical Greece and Rome. The "moderns" (epitomised by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle) took the position that the modern age of science and reason was superior to the superstitious and limited world of Greece and Rome. In his opinion, modern man saw farther than the ancients ever could. The "ancients," for their part, argued that all that is necessary to be known was to be found in Virgil, Cicero, Homer, and especially Aristotle.
This literary contest was re-enacted in miniature in England when Sir William Temple published an answer to Fontenelle entitled Of Ancient and Modern Learning in 1690. His essay introduced two metaphors to the debate that would be reused by later authors. First, he proposed that modern man was just a dwarf standing upon the "shoulders of giants" (that modern man saw farther because he begins with the observations and learning of the ancients). They possessed a clear view of nature, and modern man only reflected/refined their vision. These metaphors, of the dwarf/giant and the reflecting/emanative light, would show up in Swift's satire and others. Temple's essay was answered by Richard Bentley, the classicist and William Wotton, the critic. Temple's friends/clients, sometimes known as the "Christ Church Wits," referring to their association with Christ Church, Oxford and the guidance of Francis Atterbury, then attacked the "moderns" (and Wotton in particular). The debate in England lasted only for a few years.
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish[1] satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language,[1] and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms - such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier - or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
Produktdetails
| Einband | Taschenbuch |
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| Seitenzahl | 118 |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.11.2019 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| ISBN | 978-1-989743-13-3 |
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| Verlag | Binker North |
| Maße (L/B/H) | 22.9/15.2/0.6 cm |
| Gewicht | 184 g |