(Im)Perfect Language: 17th-century Debate on Language and Rhetoric 3700-AL-JNRKJ-OG

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Type of course

general courses

Prerequisites (description)

(in Polish) Znajomość języka angielskiego na poziomie B2 (część analizowanych tekstów dostępna jest tylko w języku angielskim)

Course coordinators

Klaudia Łączyńska

Bibliography

1. Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, przeł. Jan Wikarjak (fragment)
2. Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, (fragmenty)
3. George Wither, A collection of emblemes, ancient and modern…, 1635 (wybrane ryciny)
4. John Bulwer, Chirologia or the natural language of the hand, 1648 (fragment)
5. Thomas Hobbes, Lewiatan, czyli materia, forma i władza państwa kościelnego i świeckiego, przeł. Czesław Znamierowski , (Część I, Rozdz. 4)
6. Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society, London, 1667, (fragmenty)
7. John Wilkins, Mercury, or, The Secret and Swift Messenger. Shewing, how a Man may with Privacy and Speed communicate his Thoughts to a Friend at any distance (1641). The Second Edition. London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694 (fragmenty)
8. John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, London, 1668 (fragmenty).
9. John Locke, Rozważania dotyczące rozumu ludzkiego, przeł. B. Gawecki. (Księga III), [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Book III)]
10. George Herbert, Ołtarz (The Altar) Jordan , Skrzydła wielkanocne (Easter wings), Raj (Paradise), Zwiastunowie (Forerunners)
11. Andrew Marvell, Ogród (The Garden), Korona (The Coronet)

Literatura pomocnicza

1. Benjamin, A. E., et al. (eds.), The Figural and the Literal: Problems of Language in the History of Science and Philosophy, 1630-1800, Manchester University Press, 1987.
2. Cohen, Murray. Sensible Words: Linguistic Practice in England, 1640-1785. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
3. De Grazia, Margreta. “The Secularization of Language in the Seventeenth Century”. Journal of the History of Ideas. Vol. 41, No. 2, 1980: 319-329.
4. Eco, Umberto. W poszukiwaniu języka uniwersalnego (La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea), 2002.
5. Formigari, Lia. Language and Experience in 17th-Century British Philosophy, 1988.
6. Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries, 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
7. Lewis, Rhodri. Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
8. Stillman, Robert E. The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-Century England, 1995.
9. Srigley, Michael. “The Lascivious Metaphor: The Evolution of the Plain Style in the Seventeenth Century”, in Studia Neophilologica: A Journal of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature, Vol. LX, No. 2, 1988, pp. 179-192.
10. Subbiondo, Joseph L. “John Wilkins' Theory of the Origin and Development of Language: Historical linguistics in 17th-century Britain.” History and Historiography of Linguistics. Ed. Hans-Joseph Niederehe & Konrad Koerner. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990: 357-365.
11. Waswo, Richard Language and Meaning in the Renaissance. Princeton University Press, 1987.
12. Klaudia Łączyńska, “Pruning God's Garden: George Herbert and the Art of Rhetoric”, Studia Bobolanum, 4 (2012), str. 157-165.
13. Klaudia Łączyńska, “The Swift and Secret Messenger: John Wilkins’s Mercury and the Paradoxes of Language”, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia. An International Review of English Studies, 51/2, 2016, s. 77-91.

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