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Chrestomathy

Collection of literary passages for studying

Chrestomathy

Collection of literary passages for studying

A chrestomathy ( ; from the Ancient Greek χρηστομάθεια 'desire of learning', from χρηστός 'useful' + μανθάνω 'learn') is a collection of selected literary passages (usually from a single author); a selection of literary passages from a foreign language assembled for studying the language; or a text in various languages, used especially as an aid in learning a subject.

A "phono-chrestomathy" of Tatar music

In philology or in the study of literature, it is a type of reader that presents a sequence of example texts, selected to demonstrate the development of language or literary style. It is different from an anthology because of its didactic purpose.

Examples

  • Bernhard Dorn, A Chrestomathy of the Pushtū or Afghan language, St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1847
  • H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of his Choicest Writing, New York: Alfred P. Knopf, 1949
  • L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio de la Lingvo Esperanto, Paris: Hachette, 1903
  • Edward Ullendorff, A Tigrinya Chrestomathy, Stuttgart: Steiner Werlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985.
  • Bilingual Greek-Latin Grammar, by Georgios Dimitriou, 1785, that contained personal observations, Epistles and Maxims, as well as biographies of notable men.
  • Rosetta Code, "a programming chrestomathy site", which "present[s] solutions to the same task in as many different [computer] languages as possible".
  • The Ibis Chrestomathy, dealing "solely with words that have a claim to naturalization within the English language".
  • Heather Christle, The Crying Book, Catapult: 2019. Explores the subject of crying and tears in a numbered series of extremely short essays.

References

References

  1. Zamenhof, L. L.. (1 June 2005). "Fundamenta Krestomatio".
  2. "Anemi - Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies".
  3. Merry, Bruce. (2004). "Encyclopedia of modern Greek literature". Greenwood Press.
  4. Ghosh, Amitav. "Chrestomathy".
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