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English Literature and Ancient Languages (Paperback, Revised)
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English Literature and Ancient Languages (Paperback, Revised)
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Literature in English is hardly ever entirely in English. Contact
with other languages takes place, for example, whenever foreign
languages are introduced, or if a native style is self-consciously
developed, or when aspects of English are remade in the image of
another language. Since the Renaissance, Latin and Greek have been
an important presence in British poetry and prose. This is partly
because of the importance of the ideals and ideologies founded and
elaborated on Roman and Greek models. Latin quotations and latinate
English have always been ways to represent, scrutinize, or satirize
the influential values associated with Rome. The importance of
Latin and Greek is also due to the fact that they have helped to
form and define a variety of British social groups. Lawyers,
Catholics, and British gentlement invested in Latin as one source
of their distinction from non-professionals, from Protestants, and
from the unleisured. British attitudes toward Greek and Latin have
been highly charged because the animus that existed between groups
has also been directed toward these languages themselves. English
Literature and Ancient Languages is a study of literary uses of
language contact, of English literature in conjunction with Latin
and Greek. While the book's emphasis is literary, that is formal
and verbal, its goal is to discover how social interests and
cultural ideas are, and are not, mediated through language.
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