Translation And Transfer Of Knowledge In Encyclopedic Compilations 1680 1830

Author : Clorinda Donato,Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1487539266

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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations by Clorinda Donato,Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink Pdf

With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer.From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible format, one that eschewed the limits of previous centuries of erudition. The rise of vernacular languages dovetailed with the demand for information in every sector, sparking competition among nations to establish the encyclopedic “paper empires” that became symbols of power and potential. In this edited collection, Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink evaluate the long-overlooked phenomenon of knowledge creation and transfer that occurred in hundreds of translated encyclopedic compilations over the long eighteenth century.Analysing multiple instances of translated compilations, Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680-1830 expands into the vast realm of the multilingual, encyclopedic compilation, the most tangible proof of the global enlightenment. Through the presentation of an extensive corpus of translated compilations, it argues that the true site of knowledge transfer resided in the transnational movement of ideas exemplified by these compendia. The encyclopedia came to represent the aspiring nation as a viable economic and political player on the world stage; the capability to tell knowledge through culture became the hallmark of a nation's cultural capital, symbolic of its might and mapping the how, why, and where of the global eighteenth century.

Author : Clorinda Donato,Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487539276

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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 by Clorinda Donato,Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink Pdf

From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible format, one that eschewed the limits of previous centuries of erudition. The rise of vernacular languages dovetailed with the demand for information in every sector, sparking competition among nations to establish the encyclopedic "paper empires" that became symbols of power and potential. The contributors to this edited collection evaluate the long-overlooked phenomenon of knowledge creation and transfer that occurred in hundreds of translated encyclopedic compilations over the long eighteenth century. Analysing multiple instances of translated compilations, Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 expands into the vast realm of the multilingual, encyclopedic compilation, the most tangible proof of the global enlightenment. Through the presentation of an extensive corpus of translated compilations, this volume argues that the true site of knowledge transfer resided in the transnational movement of ideas exemplified by these compendia. The encyclopedia came to represent the aspiring nation as a viable economic and political player on the world stage; the capability to tell knowledge through culture became the hallmark of a nation’s cultural capital, symbolic of its might and mapping the how, why, and where of the global eighteenth century.

Author : Clorinda Donato,Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487508906

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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 by Clorinda Donato,Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink Pdf

With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer.

Author : Jeff Loveland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481090

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The European Encyclopedia by Jeff Loveland Pdf

Organized thematically, this book tells the story of the European encyclopedia from 1650 to the present.

Author : Mónica Bolufer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031469398

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Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century by Mónica Bolufer Pdf

Author : Stéphanie Prévost,Bénédicte Deschamps
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350107052

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Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US by Stéphanie Prévost,Bénédicte Deschamps Pdf

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced. This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day. Building on the existing literature on the exile foreign-language press in the United States and developing the study of this phenomenon in the British context, Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US offers fresh perspectives into how these marginalised periodicals influenced the political, economic and social contexts that brought them into existence. This is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals and will be of interest to anyone studying the history of the Anglo-American press, the history of immigration and cultural history.

Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487546090

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Extraordinary Aesthetes by Joseph Bristow Pdf

The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, The Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.

Author : Claire Emilie Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031404948

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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Claire Emilie Martin Pdf

Author : Angela Vanhaelen,Bronwen Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487544959

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Making Worlds by Angela Vanhaelen,Bronwen Wilson Pdf

Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. The volume advances questions about the history of globalization by focusing on how the expansion of global transit offered possibilities for interactions that included the testing of local identities through inventive experimentation with new and various forms of culture. Case studies show how the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models on other parts of the world unleashed unprecedented forces of invention as institutionalized powers came up against the creativity of peoples, cultural practices, materials, and techniques of making. In doing so, Making Worlds offers an important rethinking of how early globalization inconsistently generated ongoing dynamics of making, unmaking, and remaking worlds.

Author : Claire Emilie Martin,Clorinda Donato
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3031404939

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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Claire Emilie Martin,Clorinda Donato Pdf

This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of women’s writing during the nation-building years that characterized the global politics of the long nineteenth century. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, the waning of the Spanish Empire, subsequent Latin American uprisings, and the Italian Risorgimento, nineteenth-century women writers cracked wide open the myths of gender, race, and class that had sustained the ancien régime. This volume shows that the transnational networks of women writing about politics, sexuality, economics, and the forging of the modern nation were much broader and more inclusive at a global level than has previously been understood. The handbook uniquely foregrounds French, Italian, Latin American, and Spanish women writers, focusing on the transnational nature of their relationships and cultural production within a growing body of research that casts an ever-wider net in the effort to document women’s voices.

Author : Clorinda Donato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800857764

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The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani by Clorinda Donato Pdf

Author : Thomas Munck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521878074

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Conflict and Enlightenment by Thomas Munck Pdf

This novel study of political culture in Enlightenment Europe analyses print, public opinion and the transnational dissemination of texts.

Author : Clorinda Donato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1789622212

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The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani by Clorinda Donato Pdf

From the time Catterina Vizzani, a young Roman woman, began wooing the woman she was attracted to, she did so dressed as a man. Fleeing Rome to avoid a potential trial for sexual misdeeds, she became Giovanni Bordoni, transitioning and becoming a male in spirit, deed, and body, through what was the most complete physical change possible in the eighteenth century. This volume features Giovanni Bianchi's 1744 Italian account of Vizzani/Bordoni, published for the first time together with a modern English translation, making available to an English-speaking audience the objective, scientific exploration of gender conducted by Bianchi. John Cleland's well-known, albeit fanciful, 1751 version of the story has also been reproduced here, shedding light on the divergent sexual politics driving Bianchi's Italian original and Cleland's greatly embellished English translation. Through a close examination of Bianchi's work as anatomical practitioner and scholar, Clorinda Donato traces the development of his advocacy for tolerance of all sexual orientations. Several chapters address the medical and philosophical inquiry into sexual preference, reproduction, sexual identity, and gender fluidity which Enlightenment anatomists from Holland to Italy engaged with in their research concerning the relationship between the mind and the reproductive organs. Meanwhile, it is the social implications of gender ambiguity which may be analysed in Cleland's condemnation of women who "pass" as men. Drawing on the biographies produced by Bianchi and Cleland, the volume reflects on the motivation of each author to tell the story of Vizzani/Bordoni either as a narration of empowerment or a cautionary tale within the European context of evolving sexual opinions, some based on scientific research, others based on social practice and cultural norms.

Author : Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892365807

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Précis of the Lectures on Architecture by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand Pdf

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.

Author : Markus Krajewski
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262015899

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Paper Machines by Markus Krajewski Pdf

Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, business adopted the technology of the card catalog as a bookkeeping tool. Krajewski explores this conceptual development and casts the card file as a “universal paper machine” that accomplishes the basic operations of Turing's universal discrete machine: storing, processing, and transferring data. In telling his story, Krajewski takes the reader on a number of illuminating detours, telling us, for example, that the card catalog and the numbered street address emerged at the same time in the same city (Vienna), and that Harvard University's home-grown cataloging system grew out of a librarian's laziness; and that Melvil Dewey (originator of the Dewey Decimal System) helped bring about the technology transfer of card files to business.