David Norton, Norton David

A History of the English Bible as Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores 500 years of religious and literary ideas contained in the King James Bible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 993g
• ISBN-13: 9780521771405
• ISBN-10: 0521771404
• Artikelnr.: 21416904

Inhaltsangabe

1. Creators of English
2. From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible: arguments about language
3. The King James Bible
4. Literary implications of Bible presentation
5. The struggle for acceptance
6. The Psalter in verse and poetry
7. The eloquentest book in the world'
8. Writers and the Bible 1: Milton and Bunyan
9. The early eighteenth century and the KJB
10. Mid-century
11. The critical rise of the KJB
12. Writers and the Bible 2: the Romantics
13. Literary discussion to mid-victorian times
14. The revised version
15. 'The Bible as literature'
16. The later reputation of the KJB
17. The New English Bible.