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By Erik Butler

The now-forgotten style of the bellum grammaticale flourished within the 16th- and 17th centuries as a method of satirizing superseded cultural associations and selling new tools of guideline. In gentle of works written in Renaissance Italy, ancien regime France, and baroque Germany (Andrea Guarna's Bellum Grammaticale [1511], Antoine Furetiere's Nouvelle allegorique [1658], and Justus Georg Schottelius' Horrendum Bellum Grammaticale [1673]), this research explores early glossy representations of language as struggle. whereas usually playful in shape and cause, the texts tested handle severe problems with enduring relevance: the connection among culture and innovation, the ability of language to divide and unite humans, and canon-formation. furthermore, the writer contends, the 'language wars' remove darkness from the shift from a Latin-based realizing of studying to the popularity of vernacular erudition and the emergence of nationwide literature.

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