Origins of narrative: the romantic appropriation of the Bible
During the late eighteenth century the Bible underwent a shift in interpretation so radical as to make it virtually a different book from what it had been a hundred years earlier. Even as its text was being revealed as neither stable nor original, the new notion of the Bible as a cultural artefact b...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1996.
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| In: | Year: 1996 |
| Reviews: | Book Reviews (1997) (Adams, Nicholas, 1970 -)
Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible. Stephen Prickett (1998) (Dally, John) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Romance
/ Hermeneutics
/ Bible
B Hermeneutics / Bible / History 1790-1830 B Bible / Reception / Literature B Bible / Literature studies |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible ; Hermeneutics
B Romanticism B Bible B Bible Hermeneutics B Bible and literature |
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Print version: 9780521445436 |
| Summary: | During the late eighteenth century the Bible underwent a shift in interpretation so radical as to make it virtually a different book from what it had been a hundred years earlier. Even as its text was being revealed as neither stable nor original, the new notion of the Bible as a cultural artefact became a paradigm for all literature. In Origins of Narrative one of the world's leading scholars in biblical interpretation, criticism and theory describes how, while formal religion declined, the prestige of the Bible as a literary and aesthetic model rose to new heights: not merely was English, German and French Romanticism steeped in biblical references of a new kind, but hermeneutics and, increasingly, theories of literature and criticism were biblically derived. Professor Prickett reveals how the Romantic Bible became simultaneously a novel-like narrative work, an on-going site of re-interpretation, and an all-embracing literary form giving meaning to all other writing. Part I. Jacob's blessing: The stolen birthright -- The presence of the past -- Part II. The romantic Bible: The Bible as novel -- The Bible and history: appropriating the Revolution -- The Bible as metatype: Jacob's ladder -- Hermeneutic and narrative: the story of self-consciousness -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511582625 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511582622 |