Daniel Knapper

Pauline Style and Renaissance Literary Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780198879794
• ISBN-10: 0198879792
• Artikelnr.: 68169344

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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