Words and the Word : language, poetics, and biblical interpretation / Stephen Prickett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prickett, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Bible.

Hermeneutics.

Language and languages--Religious aspects.

Language and languages.

Criticism.

Bible--Criticism, Interpretation, etc.

Local Subjects:

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Bible--Criticism, Interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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.

Contents:

Ways of reading the Bible

'The peculiar language of heaven ... '

Poetry and prophecy

The paradoxes of disconfirmation

Metaphor and reality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-296) and index.

Conference on Christianity & Literature Book of the Year Award, Winner, 1987

ISBN:

0521322480

9780521322485

0521368383

9780521368384

OCLC:

13423802

Publisher Number:

14468445 +UKX

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