MacbethYale University Press, 01.01.2005 - 210 Seiten In this new translation of Voltaire's Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel's irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel re-creates Voltaire's stylistic brilliance by casting the novel into an English idiom that, had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American, he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers. Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cungegonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaire's philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as Gottfried Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaire's life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. |
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... follows the extremely simple form of my From Stress to Stress : An Autobiography of English Prosody ( see “ Further Read- ing , ” near the end of this book ) . Syllables with metrical stress are capitalized ; all other syllables are in ...
... follows the extremely simple form of my From Stress to Stress : An Autobiography of English Prosody ( see “ Further Read- ing , ” near the end of this book ) . Syllables with metrical stress are capitalized ; all other syllables are in ...
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... follows from these considerations that the movement and sometimes the meaning of what we must take to be Shakespeare's Macbeth will at times be different, depending on whose punctua- tion we follow, theirs or our own. I have tried, here ...
... follows from these considerations that the movement and sometimes the meaning of what we must take to be Shakespeare's Macbeth will at times be different, depending on whose punctua- tion we follow, theirs or our own. I have tried, here ...
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... follow their handwritten sources. Nor do we know if those sources, or what part thereof, might have been in Shakespeare's own hand, or even whether those sources were accurate representations of what Shakespeare wrote, either in the ...
... follow their handwritten sources. Nor do we know if those sources, or what part thereof, might have been in Shakespeare's own hand, or even whether those sources were accurate representations of what Shakespeare wrote, either in the ...
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... follow upon the traitorous prac- ticers . " 11 King James had a longstanding and profound , even profes- sional , interest in witches and witchery . In 1597 , while still King of Scotland , he had composed an earnest treatise on the ...
... follow upon the traitorous prac- ticers . " 11 King James had a longstanding and profound , even profes- sional , interest in witches and witchery . In 1597 , while still King of Scotland , he had composed an earnest treatise on the ...
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... follow , one way or another . To this point , we know absolutely nothing of Lady Macbeth . The process of informing us begins with a rush , with a swift tran- sition to the lady , coming onto an otherwise empty stage , reading aloud a ...
... follow , one way or another . To this point , we know absolutely nothing of Lady Macbeth . The process of informing us begins with a rush , with a swift tran- sition to the lady , coming onto an otherwise empty stage , reading aloud a ...
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