scholarly journals Translators’ Choices in Tartuffe

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-64
Author(s):  
Nancy Senior
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
North American ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The North ◽  
English Translations ◽  
French Tradition

Abstract Selected passages from twelve English translations of Molière’s Tartuffe are studied. The passages are chosen because of questions they raise about the language of everyday life and of religion in seventeenth-century France. The translators choose the extent to which they will keep the structures and references of the original text, or adapt them for easier access by a contemporary audience. They also choose between the French tradition of a dark, menacing interpretation, and the North American one of seeking the maximum of laughs.

scholarly journals Origin of the New England Company, London, With an Account of its Labours on Behalf of the North-American Indians.

1885 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-301
Author(s):  
Wm. Marshall Venning
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
North American ◽  
Indian Language ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arts ◽  
John Eliot

John Eliot, long known as ‘the apostle of the North-American Red Men,’ and other Englishmen early in the seventeenth century, laboured to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the heathen natives of New England in their own Indian language, and in doing so, found it necessary to carry on civilisation with religion, and to instruct them in some of the arts of life. Their writings, and more particularly some of the tracts known as the ‘Eliot Tracts,’ aroused so much interest in London that the needs of the Indians of New England were brought before Parliament, and on July 27, 1649, an Act or Ordinance was passed with this title :—‘A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England.’

Everyday Life of the North American Indian

1980 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 601
Author(s):  
Ronald N. Satz ◽  
Jon Manchip White
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
North American ◽  
The North ◽  
North American Indian

scholarly journals A Psychology of Power that is Embedded in Societal Structures

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Kraus ◽  
Brittany Torrez
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
North American ◽  
Social Power ◽  
The North ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
University Spaces

Here, we look ahead to a psychology of power that is embedded in societal structures, specifically with regard to the North American context of race, gender, and social class. We argue that studies of power are limited when decoupled from these societal structures of power and we make this argument by examining dominant working definitions and links between power and prosociality. We end with a suggestion that a fully embedded and historical psychological account of social power will require greater constraints on generality, additional descriptive work on the experience of power in everyday life, and methods and samples that bring research on social power out of university spaces and into the places, spaces, and institutions where that power is intertwined.

scholarly journals Edmund Burke and the First Stuart Revolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-494
Author(s):  
Philip Connell
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
North American ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
The North ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractThis essay reconsiders the character and significance of Edmund Burke's attitude to the seventeenth-century civil wars and interregnum. Burke may have venerated the “revolution principles” of 1688–89 over those of the 1640s, not least in the Reflections on the Revolution in France in which he notoriously compares English dissenting radicals to regicidal Puritans. Yet his response to the first Stuart revolution is more complex than has commonly been allowed and is closely bound up with Burke's earlier parliamentary career as a prominent member of the Rockingham Whig connection. The revival of an anti-Stuart idiom within the extra-parliamentary opposition of the 1760s, together with the mounting conflict with the North American colonies, gave renewed prominence to the memory of the civil wars within English political discourse. The Rockinghamites attempted to exploit this development—without compromising their own, more conservative reading of seventeenth-century history—but they were also its victims. In the years that followed, Burke and his colleagues were repeatedly identified by their political opponents with the spirit of Puritan rebellion and Cromwellian usurpation. These circumstances provide a new perspective on Burke's interpretation of the nation's revolutionary past; they also offer important insights into his writings and speeches in response to the French Revolution.

Early Missionary Work among the North American Indians

1912 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 13-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Payson Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
American Indians ◽  
North American ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
The North ◽  
Limited Scope

A study of early missionary work among the North American Indians—unless over-long for such an occasion as this—must be of limited scope. One may not, even in the most hurried way, notice the labors of the heroic Jesuit Fathers in Canada or New York, whose self-sacrificing devotion deserved a larger success; nor may the study safely extend beyond the close of the seventeenth century.

A More Brotherly Song, a Less Passionate Passion: Abstraction and Ecumenism in the Translation of the Hymn “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” from Bloodier Antecedents

2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 779-811
Author(s):  
George Faithful
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Original Text ◽  
English Translations

When nineteenth-century American Presbyterian pastor James Waddel Alexander wrote the lyrics of the hymn “O Sacred Head Now Wounded,” he created what has become the most popular of numerous English translations of seventeenth-century German Lutheran pastor Paul Gerhardt's hymn “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden.” That text was, in turn, a translation of part of an anonymous thirteenth-century cycle of passion poems, one dedicated to each of Christ's wounds. From the medieval original through Gerhardt to Alexander, each subsequent translation has diminished its depictions of blood and rendered its narrator's interaction with the crucified body of Christ less passionate, dictated by the theological needs and aesthetic sensibilities of the translator's religious tradition. At the same time, both Gerhardt and Alexander included significant elements from the original that were anomalous in their own contexts. The inclusion of a medieval poem in the worship of seventeenth-century Lutherans and nineteenth-century Presbyterians may reveal an ecumenical bent on their part, albeit with clear limits. A comparison of the various versions of the hymn demonstrates the complex interrelationship between an original text and translations of it, some of which may properly be called versions of it and some of which may have become something altogether different.

scholarly journals THE ABIDING LEGACY OF THE REFORMATION’S CONFESSIONAL ORTHODOXY: THE REQUIRED VOWS OF WESTMINSTER SEMINARY PROFESSORS AND NAPARC MINISTERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
Peter Lillback
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
The North ◽  
The Reformation

This article revisits how Christians since almost two millenniums have made use of creeds and confessions. Especially confessional vows used at Westminster Theological Seminary, also refer to the vows of the churches who are members of NAPARC (The North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council). First, it examines the historical overview of various Reformed confessions, and historical survey of Reformed confessions from the Reformation to the present. Then, Westminster seminary's Presbyterian and Reformed heritage, and finally, authority of and subscription to the confessions. To define Reformed confessional theology which arose in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, this article include the table of the confessions of Westminster seminary or the NAPARC churches. KEYWORDS: creeds, confessions, Westminster, Reformed.

Colonial Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Stephen Conway
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
North American ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
The North ◽  
Colonial Government

This essay begins by examining the establishment of English political systems in the North American colonies in the seventeenth century. It then goes on to look at eighteenth-century developments, and particularly at the conditions that allowed the colonial assemblies to assume increasing importance in colonial government. The final section considers the efforts made by ministers and officials in London to check the power of the assemblies and assert more control from the imperial center. It sheds fresh light on the great constitutional dispute between London and the colonies that formed an important aspect of the American Revolution.

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