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Bridge of words : Esperanto and the dream of a universal language / Esther Schor.
Author
Schor, Esther H.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2016.
Description
xiv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Faculty Publications
PM8209 .S36 2016
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Esperanto
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"A rich and passionate biography of a language and the dream of world harmony it sought to realize. In 1887, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, a Polish Jew, had the idea of putting an end to tribalism by creating a universal language, one that would be equally accessible to everyone in the world. The result was Esperanto, a utopian scheme full of the brilliance, craziness, and grandiosity that characterize all such messianic visions. In this first full history of a constructed language, poet and scholar Esther Schor traces the life of Esperanto. She follows the path from its invention by Zamenhof, through its turn-of-the-century golden age as the great hope of embattled cosmopolites, to its suppression by nationalist regimes and its resurgence as a bridge across the Cold War. She plunges into the mechanics of creating a language from scratch, one based on rational systems that would be easy to learn, politically neutral, and allow all to speak to all. Rooted in the dark soil of Europe, Esperanto failed to stem the continent's bloodletting, of course, but as Schor shows, the ideal continues draw a following of modern universalists dedicated to its visionary goal. Rich and subtle, Bridge of Words is at once a biography of an idea, an original history of Europe, and a spirited exploration of the only language charged with saving the world from itself"-- Provided by publisher.
"A history of Esperanto, the utopian "universal language" invented in 1887"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-348) and index.
Contents
The dream of a universal language
Samideanoj I : NASK, or total immersion
Doktoro Esperanto and the Shadow People
Samideanoj II :iznik to białystok, or, una granda rondo familia
The Heretic, the Priestess, and the Invisible Empire
Samideanoj III : Hanoi to Havana, or, Usonozo
Esperanto in a global Babel
Samideanoj IV : bona espero, or, androids.
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ISBN
9780805090796 ((hardback))
0805090797 ((hardback))
LCCN
2015018907
OCLC
898529359
Other standard number
40026532330
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