Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric /

Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric / / Barbara Kiefer Lewalski.

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-d...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1979
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 735
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Physical Description:1 online resource (564 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Emblems
  • Chapter 1. "Is there in truth no beautie ?": Protestant Poetics and the Protestant Paradigm of Salvation
  • Part I. Biblical Poetics
  • Chapter 2. Biblical Genre Theory: Precepts and Models for the Religious Lyric
  • Chapter 3. The Poetic Texture of Scripture: Tropes and Figures for the Religious Lyric
  • Chapter 4. The Biblical Symbolic Mode: Typology and the Religious Lyric
  • Part II. Ancillary Genres
  • Chapter 5. Protestant Meditation: Kinds, Structures, and Strategies of Development for the Meditative Lyric
  • Chapter 6. Protestant Emblematics: Sacred Emblems and Religious Lyrics
  • Chapter 7. Art and the Sacred Subject: Sermon Theory, Biblical Personae, and Protestant Poetics
  • Part III. The Flowering of the English Religious Lyric
  • Chapter 8. John Donne: Writing after the Copy of a Metaphorical God
  • Chapter 9. George Herbert: Artful Psalms from the Temple in the Heart
  • Chapter 10. Henry Vaughan: Pleading in Groans of My Lord's Penning
  • Chapter 11. Thomas Traherne: Naked Truth, Transparent Words, and the Renunciation of Metaphor
  • Chapter 12. Edward Taylor: Lisps of Praise and Strategies for Self-Dispraise
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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