On English Prose

1959 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Bonamy Dobree ◽  
J. R. Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
English Prose

‘Levelling the Sublime’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Young People ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
English Prose ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Status

The eighteenth century saw the curious tradition of translating Milton’s Paradise Lost into normative English prose and verse. The status of these translations as literary curiosities belies their serious ambition: to secure a universal readership of this English classic, an ambition also articulated in contemporary works of criticism and commentaries. Rather than treating this cluster of works as adaptations, this chapter conceives of them as intralingual translations, thus positioning them in the terms with which their authors describe them and within the earlier tradition of translation-as-commentary. Milton’s English translators aim at making his epic accessible to women, ‘foreigners’, ‘young people’, and ‘those of a capacity and knowledge below the first class of learning’, even if that accessibility requires some rewriting. Borrowing methods from the teaching of Latin, these authors established a practice that persists to this day in student-friendly translations of English poetry.

Rabelaisian Comedy and Satire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Literary Culture ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Francois Rabelais ◽  
Literary Style ◽  
English Prose ◽  
The Moment

This chapter discusses the influence of François Rabelais in English literary culture. It looks at this impact on earlier English prose narrative and fiction of Rabelais' loosely related tales of gluttonous, bibulous giants and their fantastic adventures, collectively known as Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–64). ‘Rabelaisian’ is of course an adjective which in both criticism and common linguistic currency has become detached from its literary and authorial origins to become an alternative term for the ‘bawdy’, the ‘vulgar’, and the ‘earthily humorous’. The chapter shows the process beginning from the moment the term is coined to describe an author's character rather than appraise their literary style, evoking a sensibility healthily drawn to festivity and indulgence but also somewhat at odds with Christian decency. The generality of the term has doubtless contributed to the vagueness of much critical discussion.

Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose (review)

Parergon ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-179
Author(s):  
Antonina Harbus
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Women Saints ◽  
English Prose

scholarly journals Phrasal Patterns in English Prose.

1934 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Morris W. Croll ◽  
John Hubert Scott ◽  
Zilpha E. Chandler
Keyword(s):  
English Prose
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