Scaligerana: Language as a Plot

The article concentrates on the analysis of Scaligerana, which stood at the origins of the ana tradition, widely represented by works created in the 17th – 19th centuries. The author analyzes the process of creating the text, which is represented by two independent versions (Prima Scaligerana and Se...

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Main Author: Andrey V. Golubkov
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Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2022-03-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://studlit.ru/images/2022-7-1/05_Golubkov_110-125.pdf
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description The article concentrates on the analysis of Scaligerana, which stood at the origins of the ana tradition, widely represented by works created in the 17th – 19th centuries. The author analyzes the process of creating the text, which is represented by two independent versions (Prima Scaligerana and Secunda Scaligerana), compiled by students and admirers of the philologist Joseph Justus Scaliger, as well as the occuring of the manuscripts, their veneration and the vicissitudes of its publication. The article explores the logic of presenting information about a scholar who appears to the reader as an interlocutor who shares his personal experience and philological research in a private conversation. It demonstrates that the increased interest in the language, etymologies, and interpretations of the “obscurities” is a distinctive feature and the leading plot line of Scaligerana. The article suggests that the reasons for the close attention to language are to be sought in the European linguistic “revolution” of the 16th century, the reasons for which lie in the radical revision of the symbol’s concept that occurred in the Protestant culture with its non-literal interpretation of transubstantiation. The deontologization of language in the absence of a norm, which was established in France only at the end of the 17th century, led to the popularization of the idea of language as the causes of things, which was evidenced by Scaligerana.
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spelling doaj-art-7a2567ca93a84c02a60d9a57f39ac19c2025-08-20T03:07:02ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World LiteratureStudia Litterarum2500-42472541-85642022-03-017111012510.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-110-125Scaligerana: Language as a Plot Andrey V. Golubkov0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7069-1033A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RussiaThe article concentrates on the analysis of Scaligerana, which stood at the origins of the ana tradition, widely represented by works created in the 17th – 19th centuries. The author analyzes the process of creating the text, which is represented by two independent versions (Prima Scaligerana and Secunda Scaligerana), compiled by students and admirers of the philologist Joseph Justus Scaliger, as well as the occuring of the manuscripts, their veneration and the vicissitudes of its publication. The article explores the logic of presenting information about a scholar who appears to the reader as an interlocutor who shares his personal experience and philological research in a private conversation. It demonstrates that the increased interest in the language, etymologies, and interpretations of the “obscurities” is a distinctive feature and the leading plot line of Scaligerana. The article suggests that the reasons for the close attention to language are to be sought in the European linguistic “revolution” of the 16th century, the reasons for which lie in the radical revision of the symbol’s concept that occurred in the Protestant culture with its non-literal interpretation of transubstantiation. The deontologization of language in the absence of a norm, which was established in France only at the end of the 17th century, led to the popularization of the idea of language as the causes of things, which was evidenced by Scaligerana.http://studlit.ru/images/2022-7-1/05_Golubkov_110-125.pdffrench literaturescaligeranaanajoseph justus scaligerprotestantismlanguagesymbol.
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Scaligerana: Language as a Plot
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french literature
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ana
joseph justus scaliger
protestantism
language
symbol.
title Scaligerana: Language as a Plot
title_full Scaligerana: Language as a Plot
title_fullStr Scaligerana: Language as a Plot
title_full_unstemmed Scaligerana: Language as a Plot
title_short Scaligerana: Language as a Plot
title_sort scaligerana language as a plot
topic french literature
scaligerana
ana
joseph justus scaliger
protestantism
language
symbol.
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