Utopia - Brossura

More, Thomas, Sir, Saint

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1853264741 ISBN 13: 9781853264740

Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996

Riassunto

One of the most influential books in the Western tradition, Thomas More's Utopia (1516) describes an imaginary island community enjoying perfect social and political harmony. This volume is the first to offer the original English translation of the work in an edition that allows students to explore in depth Utopia's historical and intellectual contexts as well as the circumstances of its reception. Based on Ralph Robynson's revised and corrected 1556 translation, with modernized spelling and extensive annotations, this edition returns students to the voice of the past, allowing them to experience the text as it was first encountered by early modern English readers.

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Recensione

Clarence Miller has made a lively and accurate translation which preserves the subtlety and wit of More's own Latin. Fluent and highly readable, this new version should be welcomed by all admirers of the Utopia. --Louis Martz, Yale University

What Clarence Miller attempts - and accomplishes - here is a nuanced and textured rendition in English that says neither less nor more than the Latin itself. --Daniel Kinney, University of Virginia

L'autore

Clarence H. Miller, now emeritus, was Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor of English Literature at St. Louis University. He served as executive editor of the fifteen-volume Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More and is the author or editor of more than a dozen other books.

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• Editore: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853264741
• ISBN 13: 9781853264740
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160