Words and The Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation

Prickett, Stephen; Stephen Prickett

ISBN 10: 0521368383 / ISBN 13: 9780521368384

Published by Cambridge Paperback Library/Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, UK, New York, et al., 1988

About this Item

305 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slight creasing on spine, front and back covers.

Seller Inventory # 4iiiEf0021

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Words and The Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation
• Publisher: Cambridge Paperback Library/Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, UK, New York, et al.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521368383
• ISBN 13: 9780521368384
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Paperback Edition: 1988
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry, Prose, Poems, Literary Studies
  • Language Studies, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

Attempts to chart the eighteenth-century schism between biblical hermeneutics and literary criticism, a split with profound implications for twentieth-century biblical translation and literary theory.