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Lewalski Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4770-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 564 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4770-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Barbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory of biblical aesthetics defining both poetic art and spiritual truth.
Originally published in 1979.
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Weitere Infos & Material
FrontMatter, pg. i
Table of Contents, pg. vii
Foreword, pg. ix
List of Abbreviations, pg. xiii
List of Emblems, pg. xiv
Chapter 1. “Is there in truth no beautie ?”: Protestant Poetics and the Protestant Paradigm of Salvation, pg. 1
Part I. Biblical Poetics, pg. 29
Chapter 2. Biblical Genre Theory: Precepts and Models for the Religious Lyric, pg. 31
Chapter 3. The Poetic Texture of Scripture: Tropes and Figures for the Religious Lyric, pg. 72
Chapter 4. The Biblical Symbolic Mode: Typology and the Religious Lyric, pg. 111
Chapter 5. Protestant Meditation: Kinds, Structures, and Strategies of Development for the Meditative Lyric, pg. 147
Chapter 6. Protestant Emblematics: Sacred Emblems and Religious Lyrics, pg. 179
Chapter 7. Art and the Sacred Subject: Sermon Theory, Biblical Personae, and Protestant Poetics, pg. 213
Chapter 8. John Donne: Writing after the Copy of a Metaphorical God, pg. 253
Chapter 9. George Herbert: Artful Psalms from the Temple in the Heart, pg. 283
Chapter 10. Henry Vaughan: Pleading in Groans of My Lord's Penning, pg. 317
Chapter 11. Thomas Traherne: Naked Truth, Transparent Words, and the Renunciation of Metaphor, pg. 352
Chapter 12. Edward Taylor: Lisps of Praise and Strategies for Self-Dispraise, pg. 388
Afterword, pg. 427
Notes, pg. 429
Index, pg. 507
