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Desiderius Erasmus

The Praise of Folly and Other Writings

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Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political Complaint of Peace, the brutal antipapal satire Julius Excluded from Heaven, two versions of Erasmus's important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament, and a selection both serious and comic of his Colloquies and his letters.  Adams has made these selections to emphasize the humane, rather than the doctrinaire, side of the first and arguably greatest humanist.Critical commentary is provided in essays by H. R. Trevor-Roper, R. S. Allen, J. Huizinga, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and Robert M. Adams.Also included are a Chronology of Eras… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Adams, Robert M. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-393-95749-5
  • EAN: 9780393957495
  • Produktnummer: 8372962
  • Verlag: W W Norton & Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Masse: H21.2 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.8 cm 336 g
  • Auflage: A Norton Critic
  • Gewicht: 336

Über den Autor


Robert M. Adams was Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics; Strains of Discord; Proteus, His Lies, His Truth: Discussion of Literary Translation; The Land and Literature of England; and Shakespeare-The Four Romances. In addition to the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (he was translator and editor of the First and Second Editions), Professor Adams was editor of five other Norton Critical Editions, including The Prince by Machiavelli, Candide by Voltaire, and The Praise of Folly and Other Writings by Erasmus, the texts of which he also translated. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

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