Begat
The King James Bible and the English Language
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A termék adatai:
- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2011. augusztus 18.
- ISBN 9780199695188
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem336 oldal
- Méret 209x131x20 mm
- Súly 408 g
- Nyelv angol 0
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Rövid leírás:
The King James Bible has contributed more to English than any other source. In this enlightening book David Crystal asks why. He looks at how its words have been given new life by poets, playwrights, novelists, politicians, journalists, advertisers, film-makers, hip-hop artists, and many others.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
What do the following have in common?
Let there be light - Whited sepulchres - A rod of iron - New wine into old bottles Lick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - A thorn in the flesh - Wheels within wheels
They're all in the King James Bible. This astonishing book has 'contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other literary source.' wrote David Crystal in 2004. In Begat he returns to the subject: he asks how a work published in 1611 could have had such an influence on the language and looks closely at what that influence has been. He comes to some surprising conclusions.
No other version of the Bible however popular (such as the Good News Bible) or imposed upon the church (like the New English Bible) has had anything like the same impact. David Crystal shows how its words and phrases got independent life in the work of poets, playwrights, novelists, and politicians, and how more recently they have been taken up by journalists, advertisers, Hollywood, and hip-hop. He reveals the great debt the King James Bible owes to its English forebears, especially John Wycliffe's in the fourteenth century and William Tyndale's in the sixteenth. He also shows that the revisions and changes made by King James's translators were crucial to its universal success.
"A person who professes to be a critic in the delicacies of the English language ought to have the Bible at his finger's ends," Lord Macaulay advised Lady Holland in 1831. David Crystal shows how true this is. His book is a revelation.
illuminating
Tartalomjegyzék:
Prologue 1
Prologue 2
In the beginning
Let there be light
Be fruitful and multiply
My brother's keeper?
Two by two
A coat of many colours
Fire and brimstone
Begat
Thou shalt not
Manna, milk, and honey
Eyes, teeth, and loins
What hath been wrought
Bread alone
How are the mighty fallen!
The skin of one's teeth
Out of the mouths of babes
Pride goes before a fall
Nothing new under the sun
Fly in the ointment
No peace for the wicked
Be horribly afraid
Interlude
Seeing the light
Eyes, ears, cheeks
Speaking, shouting, wailing, writing
Shaking, turning, moving
Many and few, first and last
Fights, foes, fools, friends
Praising famous men
Sheep, goats, swine
Money, wages, pearls, mites
Blessed are the servants
Heal thyself
Times and seasons
Birth, life, and death
Countries, kingdoms, Armageddon
Building houses, mansions, sepulchres
Millstones, crosses, yokes, pricks
Sowing seeds
Salt and wine
The law, judges, thieves, swords
Love and charity
Peace and patience, wrath, whore
Epilogue
Appendixes
Indexes
