| Description |
xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ways of reading the Bible -- 2. 'The peculiar language of heaven ': the religious and the poetic 'primal consciousness' and linguistic change -- 3. Poetry and prophecy -- 4. The paradoxes of disconfirmation -- 5. Metaphor and reality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Prickett charts the schism, opened at the end of the eighteenth 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, Coleridge 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 |
| Analysis |
Bible Hermeneutics, ca 1750- ca 1840 |
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Bible. Old Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Languages - Religious aspects |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 283-296 |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Hermeneutics.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013650
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| Subject |
Christianity and literature.
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Criticism.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
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Literature -- Religious aspects.
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Nature in literature.
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Word (Linguistics)
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Word (Theology)
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| LC no. |
86008269 |
| ISBN |
0521322480 |
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0521368383 (paperback) |
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