'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770-1880Cambridge University Press, 5 jun 1980 - 361 pagina's Dr Schaffer outlines the development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism, especially its German origins and its reception in England, and studies the influence of this movement in the work of specific writers: Coleridge Hölderlin, Browning, and George Eliot. The 'higher criticism' treated sacred scripture as literature and as history, as the product of its time, and the highest expression of a developing group consciousness; it challenged current views on the authorship and dating of the Pentateuch and the Gospels, on inspiration, prophecy, and canonicity, and formulated a new apologetics closely linked with the growth of Romantic aesthetics. The importance of this study is that it shows that readings of specific literary texts can intersect with general movements of thought and action through the scrutiny of a clearly defined intellectual discipline, here the higher criticism, which developed as a particular expression of the larger trends in the history of the period. Dr Shaffer throws light on individual works of literature, the formation between England and Germany, and the bases of European Romanticism. |
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... knowledge of the major German sources , show little grasp of the place of the higher criticism in a general European movement of ideas and equally little of the very specific local history of its reception and practice in England . They ...
... knowledge of the major German sources , show little grasp of the place of the higher criticism in a general European movement of ideas and equally little of the very specific local history of its reception and practice in England . They ...
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... uniquely and for this purpose alone , in order to illuminate the peculiar qualities of the period . It may be helpful to think of this subject - matter as an activity , rather than a solid body of knowledge . ' It 3 Introduction.
... uniquely and for this purpose alone , in order to illuminate the peculiar qualities of the period . It may be helpful to think of this subject - matter as an activity , rather than a solid body of knowledge . ' It 3 Introduction.
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... knowledge . ' It is not then a question of relating the art to the society , but of studying all the activities and their interrelations , without any concession of priority to any one of them we may choose to abstract . " The ...
... knowledge . ' It is not then a question of relating the art to the society , but of studying all the activities and their interrelations , without any concession of priority to any one of them we may choose to abstract . " The ...
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... knowledge of literary symbolism as a whole , a gap which all the new knowledge brought to bear on it is quite incompetent to fill . I feel that historical scholarship is without ex- ception ' lower ' or analytic criticism , and that ...
... knowledge of literary symbolism as a whole , a gap which all the new knowledge brought to bear on it is quite incompetent to fill . I feel that historical scholarship is without ex- ception ' lower ' or analytic criticism , and that ...
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... knowledge of the new criticism was very great , and that it can be clarified by reference to the radical Unitarian circles he moved in during the early 1790s , which were fully aware of the new Continental work and among the first to ...
... knowledge of the new criticism was very great , and that it can be clarified by reference to the radical Unitarian circles he moved in during the early 1790s , which were fully aware of the new Continental work and among the first to ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Fall of Jerusalem Coleridges unwritten epic | 17 |
The visionary character Revelation and the lyrical ballad | 62 |
The oriental idyll | 96 |
Holderlins Patmos ode and Kubla Khan mythological doubling | 145 |
Brownings St John the casuistry of the higher criticism | 191 |
Daniel Deronda and the conventions of fiction | 225 |
Eichhorns outline of the poetic action of the Book of Revelation | 292 |
A translation of Holderlins Patmos | 296 |
Patmos | 303 |
Notes | 309 |
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357 | |
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Adam allegory apocalyptic apologetics apostles attempt Beddoes Bible Biblical criticism Biblical poetry Book of Revelation Browning Browning's character Christ Christian claim Coleridge Coleridge's conception consciousness context culture Daniel Deronda death disciples divine doctrine early Eichhorn eighteenth century Einleitung English Enlightenment epic event experience fact faith Fall of Jerusalem Feuerbach Fourth Gospel Gabler Genesis George Eliot German gnostic gods Greek Gwendolen Hebrew Hegel Hellenistic Herder higher criticism Hölderlin holy human Ibid idea imagination interpretation Jesus Jesus's Jewish Jews John John's Kant Klopstock Kubla Khan Letters literary literature London milieu miracle modern monotheism moral Mysteries myth mythological nature Notebooks novel Old Testament Oriental original Patmos philosophical poem poet poetic poetry primitive prophecy prophetic religion religious Renan romantic sacred scene Schelling sense soul spirit Strauss symbolic syncretism theology theory thought tradition trans translation Unitarian Victorian vision visionary Werke whole wrote