Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England : Faith in the Language

Jamie H. Ferguson

ISBN 10: 3030817946 / ISBN 13: 9783030817947

Edité par Springer, 2022

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the Bible.Faith in the Languageexamines the convergence of biblical interpretation and English literature, from William Tyndale to John Donne, and argues that the groundwork for a newly authoritative literary tradition in early modern England is laid in the discourse of biblical hermeneutics. The period 1525-1611 witnessed a proliferation of English biblical versions, provoking a century-long debate about how and whether the Bible should be rendered in English.These public, indeed institutionalaccounts of biblical English changed the language: questions about the relation between Scripture and exegetical tradition that shaped post-Reformation hermeneutics bore strange fruit in secular literature that defined itself through varying forms of autonomy vis-a-vis prior tradition.

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• Titre: Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England : Faith in the Language
• Éditeur: Springer
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3030817946
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783030817947
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 153 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 153 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 458 grammes

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Synopsis

The expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the Bible. Faith in the Language examines the convergence of biblical interpretation and English literature, from William Tyndale to John Donne, and argues that the groundwork for a newly authoritative literary tradition in early modern England is laid in the discourse of biblical hermeneutics. The period 1525-1611 witnessed a proliferation of English biblical versions, provoking a century-long debate about how and whether the Bible should be rendered in English. These public, indeed institutional accounts of biblical English changed the language: questions about the relation between Scripture and exegetical tradition that shaped post-Reformation hermeneutics bore strange fruit in secular literature that defined itself through varying forms of autonomy vis-a-vis prior tradition.

À propos de l'auteur

Jamie H. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Honors and English at the University of Houston.