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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Marc'hadour, Germain

Titel

NOS REVUES-SOEURS BROWSING THROUGH OUR SISTER JOURNALS

Ist Teil von

• Moreana (Angers), 2001-12, Vol.38 (147/148), p.83

Ort / Verlag

Angers: Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Samuel Johnson, he points out, in The Idler, No 7, "favours leniency, and, lest his reader suspect him of being radical, like a true columnist he gives a flick to the tail of his piece by ascribing this opinion '"to its author, Sir Thomas More."' In the Forum section of PMLA 1 15.5 (October 2000), Juergen Hahn writes : [If] random deconstruction is allowed to undo all intellectual institutions, in the words of A Man for All Seasons, "do you really think you could stand up in the winds that would blow then?" Like Thomas More, some of us must be prepared to stem the tide, even at some professional risk, with our heads up high (and, it is hoped, intact). The editor, Tibor Fabiny, who also contributed an essay on "Reformation Apocalypse in Shakespeare Tragedy" (110-124), was guest professor at Roanoke College, Virginia, and has published books on the Bible and hermeneutics, in English as well as in Hungarian. To sample Tóta's prose while encapsulating his argument, I reproduce a paragraph (88): According to this survey of the time in More's Dialogue of Comfort the following aspects can be deduced: it is suspended and embedded, definite and indefinite, finite and infinite, linear and cyclical, continuous and repetitive, horizontal and vertical, chronological and eternal, absolute and relative, human and divine, historic and spiritual, public and private at the same time. Tòta wisely chose to quote Utopia according to the Cambridge edition of 1995 (correct 1994 in his bibliography): it is a pity that he did not imitate the three seasoned scholars who were its joint editors, and who agreed to modernise the spelling of the Latin, thus returning to the sensible tradition of great classicists such as P.S. Allen, against the superstitious adherence to spellings which have no higher authority than that of early copyists or publishers.