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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 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