1st Edition
The Multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)
By Christopher Joby
Copyright 2015
350 Pages
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Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
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Routledge
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Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, Italian, English, Spanish, and German: those are the eight languages in which Dutch Golden Age poet Constantijn Huygens (1596—1687) wrote his poetry and correspondence. He also knew a bit of Hebrew and Portuguese. Examining a wide range of Huygens’s writings“including personal letters, state correspondence, and poetry“Christopher Joby explores how Huygens tested the... Read more
1. 'Multilingualism: An Introduction', 2. 'Huygens' Language Acquisition', 3. 'The multidimensionality of Huygens' Multilingualism', 4. 'Huygens' multilingualism in music, science and architecture', 5. 'Huygens and Translation', 6. 'Code Switching in Huygens' work', 7. 'The multilingualism of Huygens' children', Epilogue
Biography
Dr. Christopher Joby is Associate Professor of Dutch, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea. He is the author of 'The Multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)' (AUP, 2014), and 'The Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702)' (Brill, 2015). Professor, Department of Dutch, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. He has published many articles on the work of Huygens and Vondel, and on Dutch language and literature in early modern Britain.
