Words and The Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical InterpretationPrickett 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 translation theories and conceptions of metaphor. |
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... gods had made thee poetical . Audrey : I do not know what ' poetical ' is : is it honest in deed and word ? is it a true thing ? As You Like It , III , iii , 13–15 Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Ways of reading the Bible The.
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Contents
Ways of reading the Bible | 4 |
The peculiar language of heaven | 37 |
Primal Consciousness and linguistic change | 68 |
Poetry and prophecy | 95 |
The Book of Nature | 123 |
The paradoxes of disconfirmation | 149 |
The shaking of the foundations | 174 |
Metaphor and reality | 196 |
Notes | 243 |
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Words and the Word: Language, Poetics, and Biblical Interpretation Stephen Prickett No preview available - 1986 |
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