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Informationen zum Autor David Jasper is Professor in Theology at Glasgow University! Director of the Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology at Glasgow! and general editor of Literature and Theology and International Journal of Theory! Criticism and Culture. He has published widely in the fields of theology and literature. Stephen Prickett is Regius Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University. Co--editor of the Worlda s Classics Bible! his books include Reading the Text: Biblical Criticism and Literature (1991)! Words and a The Worda : Language! poetics and biblical interpretation (1986)! Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible (1996). He is a member of the editorial board of Literature and Theology. Klappentext There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundamental to the study of English literature and language. Zusammenfassung aeo Provides an accessible introduction to the study of the biblea s importance for Western literature. aeo Offers students the opportunity to study the intertextual relations between literature and the bible. aeo Contains a section of additional suggested reading and a full bibliography. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgements. General Introduction. Biblical and Literary Criticism: A History of Interaction: Stephen Prickett. Literary Readings of the Bible: Trends in Modern Criticism: David Jasper. Part I: . The Creation (Genesis 1-2): John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book VII. Lines 205-216. "The Spacious Firmament on High": Joseph Addison. Biographia Literaria. Chapter XIII: S.T. Coleridge. Choruses from The Rock (VII): T.S. Eliot. D. H. Lawrence, "Let There be Light". The Magician's Nephew: C.S. Lewis. Part II: . "In the Beginning was the Word" (John 1:1-18): Justin Martyr, Apology. . Divine Sonnets. No. 4: John Donne. Lectures on Revealed Religion. : S. T.Coleridge. Faust, Part 1: Goethe. The Morgan Maggiore: Lord Byron. Collected Poems No. 1651 ("A Word Made Flesh is Seldom"): Emily Dickenson. "In the Beginning was the Three-pointed Star": Dylan Thomas. Of Grammatology: Jacques Derrida. Part III: . The Fall (Genesis 3:1-3):. The City of God. "Adam Lay in Bondage": St. Augustine. Paradise Lost, Book LX. Lines 655-792: John Milton. Earl of Rochester, "The Fall": John Wilmot. "The Tree of Knowledge": Abraham Cowley. Free Fall: William Golding. Part IV: . The Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19): Pentateuch with Targum Onkelos, Haphtaroth and Rashi's Commentary. The City of God. 14th Century English Passion Play: Augustine. Religio Medici: Sir Thomas Browne. Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy. Fear and Trembling: Soren Kierkegaard. Letter of 1921: Franx Kafka. "England, my England": D.H. Lawrence. "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young": Wilfrid Owen. Mimesis: Erich Auerbach. Part V: . Jacob and Esau (Genesis 27:15-35): The City of God: Augustine. John Donne, Holy Sonnets: John Donne. No. XI. Francis Quarles, "On Jacob's Purchase". The Christian Year: John Keble. Joseph and his Brothers: Thomas Mann. Midnight's Children: Salman Rushdie. Part VI: . Wrestling Jacob (Genesis 32:22-32): Izaak Walton, The Life of John Donne. . "Wrestling Jacob": Charles Wesley. "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel": Jones Very. "Carrion Comfort": Gerald Manley Hopkins. "A little east of Jordan", Collected Poems: Emily Dic...
