Words and the Word Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation

Name: Words and the Word Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780521322485

ISBN-10: 0521322480

ISBN-13: 9780521322485

Edition: 1986

Authors: Stephen Prickett

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Prickett charts the schism, opened at the end of the oighteenth century, between biblical hermeneutics and literary criticism. This split has profound implications for both contemporary biblical translation and literary theory. The author investigates the critical commonplace that religious language is essentially poetic, and traces the development of that view in the writings of Dennis and Vico, Herder and Eichhorn, Ccoleridge and Arnold, Wordsworth and Hopkins, and Austin Farrer and Paul Ricouer. This concept continues to provide a terminology for discussing narrative that can no longer be interpreted literally or allegorically, but has also led some critics to devise inadequate…

Book details

List price: $72.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/1986
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Ways of reading the Bible


The problem of the transparent text



'The peculiar language of heaven ...'


The religious and the poetic


'Primal Consciousness' and linguistic change



Poetry and prophecy


The language of the Great Code


The Book of Nature



The paradoxes of disconfirmation


Elijah and Dante: The Word and the 'Voice'


Convention and realism: The shaking of the foundations



Metaphor and reality


Notes


Bibliography


Index