Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts by Westbrook, D.

Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312240141)

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Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts by Westbrook, D.

Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts

$54.99
Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts by Westbrook, D.

Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches - intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics - Westbrook first analyzes Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation. Subsequent chapters consider Wordsworth's adaptation of biblical narrative forms - etymological tales, parables, and mystical allegories. Closing chapters examine some extraordinary linguistic innovations in Wordsworth's revisions of biblical apocalypse, techniques that permit the poet to express the ineffable and to reveal nothing.

Author: D. Westbrook
ISBN-10: 0312240147
ISBN-13: 9780312240141
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2001
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.78w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2002 pg. 1053
By D. Westbrook
By D. Westbrook
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DEANE WESTBROOK is Professor of English at Portland State University where she teaches courses in British romanticism, poetry, criticism, mythology, biblical literature, baseball and myth, nineteenth-century studies, and classical Greek civilization. Her published works include articles on Genesis, northern European mythology, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, and a book, Ground Rules: Baseball and Myth.

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