French Pulpit Oratory, 1598-1650 - A Study of Themes Styles, With a Descriptive Catalogue of Printed

Klappentext This 1980 text was the first full-length study of seventeenth-century pulpit oratory since 1863, and the first to treat both Catholic and Protestant preaching. Zusammenfassung This 1980 text was the first full-length study of seventeenth-century pulpit oratory since 1863! and the first to treat both Catholic and Protestant preaching. The first part considers the sermon as a literary form! whilst the second is a descriptive catalogue of extant sermons of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Note on the presentation of texts; Part I: 1. Studying sermons; 2. Rhetoric in the schools; 3. Rhetoric in the Church; 4. Prose patterns; 5. Sermon structure and its stylistic implications; 6. Themes and their imagery (i) illusion and reality; 7. Themes and their imagery (ii) 'Nature, that universal and publick Manuscript'; Postscript; Part II. Descriptive Catalogue of Printed Texts; Explanatory note; Abbreviations; Catalogue; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index to Part I.

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• Authors: Peter Bayley, Peter C. Bayley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521168359
• ISBN: 978-0-521-16835-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; French, France, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Sermons / Christian, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Christianity, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700, Sermons, Christian sermons, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form