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Words and the Word: Language Poetics, and Biblical Interpretation

Words and the Word: Language Poetics, and Biblical Interpretation

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Literary CriticismReligion General Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0521368383
ISBN13: 9780521368384
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Aug 26 1988
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
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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