| Words and the Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation Contributor(s): Prickett, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511597479 ISBN-13: 9780511597473 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $140.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Religion | Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics |
| Dewey: 220.601 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |