Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521021388)

During the later 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 historical criticism suggested that the Bible's text was neither stable nor original, the new notion of the Bible as a cultural artifact became a paradigm of all literature. Not merely was English, German and French Romanticism steeped in Biblical references of a new kind, but theories of literature and criticism came to be Biblically derived.

Author: Stephen Prickett
ISBN-10: 0521021383
ISBN-13: 9780521021388
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2005
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d