The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism write by David Jasper. This book was released on 2009-06-22. The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interdisciplinary study of Romanticism which focuses on the reception of the Biblical canon in poetry, art and theory.
The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare
The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare write by P. Davidhazi. This book was released on 1998-08-19. The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on England, Hungary and on some other European countries, the book explores the latent religious patterns in the appropriation of Shakespeare from the 1769 Stratford Jubilee to the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth in 1864. It shows how the Shakespeare cult used quasi-religious (verbal and ritual) means of reverence, how it made use of some romantic notions, and how the ensuing quasi-transcendental authority was utilized for political purposes. The book suggests a theoretical framework and a comprehensive anthropological context for the interpretation of literature.
Romantic Geography
Romantic Geography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romantic Geography write by M. Wiley. This book was released on 1998-09-28. Romantic Geography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grounded in historical sources and informed by recent work in cultural, sociological, geographical and spatial studies, Romantic Geography illuminates the nexus between imaginative literature and geography in William Wordsworth's poetry and prose. It shows that eighteenth-century social and political interest groups contested spaces through maps, geographical commentaries and travel literature; and that by configuring 'utopian' landscapes Wordsworth himself participated in major social and political controversies in post-French Revolutionary England.
Bacchus in Romantic England
Bacchus in Romantic England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bacchus in Romantic England write by A. Taylor. This book was released on 1998-11-11. Bacchus in Romantic England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bacchus in Romantic England describes real drunkenness among writers and ordinary people in the Romantic age. It grounds this 'reality' in writings by doctors and philanthropists from 1780 onwards, who describe an epidemic of drunkenness. These commentators provide a context for the different ways that poets and novelists of the age represent drunkards. Wordsworth writes poems and essays evaluating the drunken career of his model Robert Burns. Charles Lamb's essays and letters reveal a real and metaphorical preoccupation with his own drinking as a way of disguising his personal suffering; his companion Coleridge writes drinking songs, essays about drunkenness, and meditations about his own weakness of will that show both festive inebriety and consciousness of an inward abyss; Coleridge's son Hartley, whose fate his father had prophesied, experiences drunkenness as the life-long humiliation described in his poems and letters. Keats's complex dionysianism runs through 'Endymion' and the late odes, setting him at odds with his temperate hero Milton. Men in the Romantic age, such as Sheridan, Byron, Moor, and Clare, celebrate rowdy friendship with tales and songs of drinking; Romantic women novelists such as Smith, Edgeworth and Wollstonecraft depict these men stumbling home to abuse their wives. Although excessive drinking is real in the period, observers and participants can still maintain ambivalence about its power to release or to debase the human being.
Readings in the Canon of Scripture
Readings in the Canon of Scripture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Readings in the Canon of Scripture write by David Jasper. This book was released on 2009-06-23. Readings in the Canon of Scripture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Canonical criticism is not a recognized branch of biblical studies--granting new focus to questions of the authority and truth of the scriptural writings. Developed within a critical sense of the dominant historical-critical tone of biblical studies, canonical criticism as it has been pursued by the American scholars Brevard S. Childs and James A. Sanders stands as witness to the theological necessity of a more literary approach to the Bible. This book both criticizes the canonical enterprise, and takes it much further into readings of the canon from the perspective not only of literature, but also art, and in particular the biblical art of Rembrandt. In addition, it remains acutely conscious of the contemporary environment of our reading within the political concerns of feminist criticism, popular absorption in film and the narratives of the screen, and finally the crisis, or crises, which characterize the so-called postmodern condition. What emerges is at once highly critical of traditional strategies of canonization, and at the same time constructive and concerned to recover the Bible for our own time in readings which move outside the limited academic concerns of the biblical critic or the institutions of the church and religious community.
