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This book traces the emergence and development of Literature and the Bible as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The Western literary tradition has a long and complex relationship with the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Authors draw on the Bible in numerous ways and for different reasons, and there is also the myriad of subconscious ways through which the biblical...
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Words and phrases are cited alphabetically, and extensively cross-referenced and indexed for reader who know the gist but not the first word, that are widely used and drawn from the Bible; from Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology; and somewhat from Egyptian and Celtic sources. All the sources predate AD 1000. The articles not only identify the source, but explain the context and provide an example of its modern use. A companion covers cultural and historical...
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"In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeare's "rescripturing" of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and an overall sense of affirmation and participation, and that many of his plays constitute their own original testament, insofar as they translate the good news into human terms. In Hamlet and...
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"Samson Agonistes is the climax and completion of Milton's poetic vision. As such, it has become the work at which the critical controversies in Milton studies converge and from which new critical perspectives on Milton's poems emerge." "In 1969, John Carey heralded the birth of new critical perspectives when he contended that Milton's dramatic poem "is not a drama of inner regeneration," a view that flies in the face of traditional interpretation,...
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"Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry. Through close readings of fifty poems, featured in their original Hebrew and in English translation, David Jacobson studies how Israeli poets respond to and incorporate the Bible in their work and reflect on the presence of the Bible in contemporary Israeli culture."--BOOK JACKET. "The book provides a stunning...
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The debt of English romanticism to this new interest in biblical poetry, while it has been acknowledged, has never been closely studied, and it is the purpose of this book to examine in some detail the nature and extent of that debt, both in the narrower sphere of metrical forms and in those broader concepts of poetry peculiar to the romantic movement. Such an investigation inevitably involves even wider issues, and this book is really a study of...
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"Offering an extraordinary window on centuries of dialogue between the Bible and literature, this superb, unprecedented, and award-winning reference work is designed to help the modern reader understand how biblical motifs, concepts, names, quotations and allusions have been transmitted through exegetical tradition and used by authors of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present. The book includes several hundred encyclopedic articles...
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"Chaucer's works abound with biblical quotations and allusions, yet his innovative uses of the Bible have not been adequately explored. Lawrence Besserman, an expert in both the Bible and Chaucer's poetry, remedies this omission. Through close analysis of what Chaucer does with the Bible as well as what he says about it, Besserman at once enhances appreciation of Chaucer's originality and increases understanding of shifting attitudes toward the Bible...
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