| The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy Contributor(s): Balfour, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804745064 ISBN-13: 9780804745062 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $36.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: " This is a work of major significance, a study that will not only contribute substantially to our understanding of each of the authors Balfour addresses, but also will change the very field of play in Romantic studies. A brilliant reader of literary and philosophical texts, Balfour has with this book crafted a bold and compelling argument of genuine historical force that will, I believe, be regarded as a landmark study." -- Forest Pyle, University of Oregon " [The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy"] usefully recontextualizes some of the major poems and texts of the British and German Romantic movements by reminding us of the historical importance of biblical hermeneutics . . . [T]he book' s most impressive accomplishment is to demonstrate the high philosophical, theological, and ideological states of arguments about voice, authority, and figurative language and thereby to recover for us a Romanticism that is not simply a thing of the past. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 821.709 |
| LCCN: 2002007733 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 8.98" (1.11 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The romantic era in England and Germany saw a sudden renewal of prophetic modes of writing. Biblical prophecy and classical oracle once again became viable models for poetry and even for journalistic prose. After surveying 18th-century biblical hermeneutics, as well as numerous instances of prophetic eruption in Romantic poetry, the book culminates in close readings of works by Blake, Hölderlin, and Coleridge. |