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Daniel Knapper provides the first critical history of Saint Paul's rhetorical style in the Renaissance. The book examines creative responses to Paul's style across a wide range of mediums and genres, showing how writers and artists wrestled not only with the provocative ideas in Paul's New Testament epistles, but also his ways of expressing them.
List of contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- 1: In Praise of Bad Prose: Reading Pauline Style in the Renaissance
- 2: The Apostle and the Machiavel: Paul, Richard, and the Rhetoric of Apology in Shakespeare's Richard III
- 3: The Fool, the Knight, and the Counselor: Pauline Imitation in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and The Winter's Tale
- 4: Arguing with Paul: Reason, Rhetoric, and Theology on the Brink in John Donne's Holy Sonnets
- 5: Tanquam Paulus in Cathedra: Lancelot Andrewes and the Politics of Pauline Preaching
- 6: Towards Enlightenment: Reading Pauline Style in the Late Seventeenth Century
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Daniel Knapper is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grand Valley State University and the editor of Comparative Drama, a quarterly journal of drama, theatre, and performance studies.
Summary
Daniel Knapper provides the first critical history of Saint Paul's rhetorical style in the Renaissance. The book examines creative responses to Paul's style across a wide range of mediums and genres, showing how writers and artists wrestled not only with the provocative ideas in Paul's New Testament epistles, but also his ways of expressing them.
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This original study examines how Paul's Greek style influenced Renaissance writers and thinkers who were able to read/translate Paul's words in and from their original language for the first time...The result of this analysis is a convincing argument that the Renaissance imitation, assessment, and assimilation of Pauline style had a significant impact on the development of Renaissance writing and thought....Highly recommended.
