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Words and The Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation

By Stephen Prickett

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1988
ISBN
9780511597473, 9780521322485, 9780521368384
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511597473
LCC
BS476 .P75 1986
Google Books ID
A5d36-vglRIC
Open Library ID
OL24755303M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5748313 bytes)
Pages
317\317
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 translation theories and conceptions of metaphor.

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