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32 produkter
Bible: Authorized King James Version
Av Stephen Prickett, Robert Carroll
E-bok, 2008
153 kr
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The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even …
Bible: Authorized King James Version
Av Stephen Prickett, Robert Carroll
E-bok, 2008
150 kr
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The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even …
The Bible: Authorized King James Version
Av Robert (Professor of Hebrew ... Carroll, Robert Carroll m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
187 kr
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The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even …
Narrative, Religion and Science
Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700-1999
Häftad, 2002
429 kr
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An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply 'telling stories about the world'. If this is so, Stephen Prickett argues, literary criticism can (and should) be applied to all these fields. Such …
Origins of Narrative
The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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During the late eighteenth century the Bible underwent a shift in interpretation so radical as to make it virtually a different book from what it had been a hundred years earlier. Even as its text was being revealed as neither stable nor original, the new notion of the Bible as a cultural artefact …
Romanticism and Religion
The Tradition of Coleridge and Wordsworth in the Victorian Church
Häftad, 2008
804 kr
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Modern scholarship has tended to separate literature and theology. Yet it is impossible to understand the ideas of such Victorian theologians as Hare and Maurice, Keble and Newman without reference to contemporary literary criticism - just as it is impossible to understand criticism of the period …
Coleridge and Wordsworth
The Poetry of Growth
Häftad, 1980
538 kr
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Originally published in 1980, this is a study of the 'romanticism' of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Their concern with creativity, and the conditions that helped or hindered their own artistic development, produced a new concept of mental growth - a 'modern' view of the mind as organic, active, and …
The Bible
Av Stephen Prickett, Robert Barnes m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
504 kr
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This study focuses on the Bible as a landmark of literature, showing both how it has influenced writers through the ages and how it in turn has been influenced by contemporary literature. It describes what is known about the historical context of the documents, the changes of interpretation they …
Words and The Word
Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation
Häftad, 1988
538 kr
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First published in 1986, Stephen Prickett's Words and the 'Word' has had a major impact among scholars of literature and literary theory as well as among theologians and biblical critics. In this highly-acclaimed book Prickett pursues the question of the relationship between religion and poetics, …
Origins of Narrative
The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible
Inbunden, 1996
1551 kr
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During the late eighteenth century the Bible underwent a shift in interpretation so radical as to make it virtually a different book from what it had been a hundred years earlier. Even as its text was being revealed as neither stable nor original, the new notion of the Bible as a cultural artefact …
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition
Backing into the Future
Inbunden, 2009
1150 kr
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The idea of tradition seems a timeless one, but our modern understanding of the term was actually shaped by the Victorian revival of tradition as a cornerstone of religion, art and culture. Stephen Prickett traces how the word 'tradition' fell out of use in English by the middle of the eighteenth …
Narrative, Religion and Science
Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700-1999
Inbunden, 2002
1422 kr
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An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply 'telling stories about the world'. If this is so, Stephen Prickett argues, literary criticism can (and should) be applied to all these fields. Such …
The Bible and Western Christian Literature: Books and The Book
Av Stephen Prickett, Elisabeth Jay
2024
14242 kr
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The Bible and Western Christian Literature is a 5-volume, 1.5 million word reference resource on the impact and influence of the bible upon the development of literature, charting this relationship from the classical period to the modern day. The international spread of the biblical text is …
Bible and Literature
A Reader
Häftad, 1999
699 kr
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There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundamental to the study of English literature and language.
Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts
Inbunden, 2014
2666 kr
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An authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the artsIn this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous to just beginning, explore the role of the Bible in art and of artistic motifs in the Bible. The specially commissioned chapters demonstrate that just as …
Education! Education! Education!
Managerial Ethics and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Av Stephen Prickett, Patricia Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2002
506 kr
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The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests. School curricula have been narrowed with an emphasis on measurable results in the 3 R's and the 'quality’ of …
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition
Backing into the Future
Häftad, 2013
842 kr
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The idea of tradition seems a timeless one, but our modern understanding of the term was actually shaped by the Victorian revival of tradition as a cornerstone of religion, art and culture. Stephen Prickett traces how the word 'tradition' fell out of use in English by the middle of the eighteenth …
Romantics
Inbunden, 2016
2888 kr
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First published in 1981. This book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions – in literature, art, religion, philosophy and politics – that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the …
Romantics
Häftad, 2017
644 kr
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First published in 1981. This book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions – in literature, art, religion, philosophy and politics – that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the …
Romantics
E-bok, 2016
757 kr
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First published in 1981. This book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions – in literature, art, religion, philosophy and politics – that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the …
Romantics
E-bok, 2016
757 kr
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First published in 1981. This book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions – in literature, art, religion, philosophy and politics – that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the …
Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts
Häftad, 2024
536 kr
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An authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the artsIn this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous to just beginning, explore the role of the Bible in art and of artistic motifs in the Bible. The specially commissioned chapters demonstrate that just as …
European Romanticism
A Reader
E-bok, 2014
1578 kr
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Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tended to see Romanticism as predominantly British, the term itself actually originated in Germany, where it became the banner of a Europe-wide movement involving the profound intellectual and aesthetic …
European Romanticism
A Reader
Häftad, 2014
1466 kr
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Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tended to see Romanticism as predominantly British, the term itself actually originated in Germany, where it became the banner of a Europe-wide movement involving the profound intellectual and aesthetic …
European Romanticism
A Reader
E-bok, 2014
1566 kr
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Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tended to see Romanticism as predominantly British, the term itself actually originated in Germany, where it became the banner of a Europe-wide movement involving the profound intellectual and aesthetic …
Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts
E-bok, 2019
661 kr
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An authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the arts In this unique Companion , 35 scholars, from world-famous to just beginning, explore the role of the Bible in art and of artistic motifs in the Bible. The specially commissioned chapters demonstrate that just as …
Secret Selves
A History of Our Inner Space
Inbunden, 2021
346 kr
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Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves – and how we have created and written about them – from the Old Testament to social media. What he finds is that although our secret, …
Secret Selves
A History of Our Inner Space
E-bok, 2021
556 kr
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Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves – and how we have created and written about them – from the Old Testament to social media. What he finds is that although our secret, …
Secret Selves
A History of Our Inner Space
E-bok, 2021
574 kr
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Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves – and how we have created and written about them – from the Old Testament to social media. What he finds is that although our secret, …
