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| Titre : | The Art of Biblical Poetry |
| Auteurs : | Robert Alter, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | New York [USA] : Basic Books, 1985 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-465-00430-0 |
| Format : | xii + 228 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | BX/D (Introduction aux livres poétiques) |
| Résumé : |
From the Psalms to the Wisdom poetry of Job and the Proverbs, from prophetic verse to the love poetry of the Song of Songs, the Bible is an astonishing expression of the ancient impulse to render through poetry our profound religious visions.
In this brilliant, original, and highly readable analysis, the author of the widely acclaimed The Art of Biblical Narrative provides a fresh interpretation of the poetry of the Old Testament and a lucid account of how biblical poetry works. Robert Alter brings to light the underlying poetic principles and then demonstrates how the ancient Hebrews constructed their distinctive poetic line and extended it to larger poetic units. Analyzing each of the Bible’s main poetic genres, Professor Alter enables the general reader and specialist alike to see these ancient poems with a new freshness, and to understand better the manifold connections between poetic vehicle and religious vision. Since the discovery in the eighteenth century of poetic parallelism as a governing device of biblical verse, not much progress has been made in understanding the principles by which biblical poetry operates. With this important sequel to his landmark book on biblical narrative, this noted literary critic and scholar shows how the poetry of the Bible may be read with more awareness and in closer consonance with the originally intended meanings. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface - I. The Dynamics of Parallelism - II. From Line to Story - III. Structures of Intensification - IV. Truth and Poetry in the Book of Job - V. Forms of Faith in Psalms - VI. Prophecy and Poetry - VII. The Poetry of Wit - VIII. The Garden of Metaphor - IX. The Life of the Tradition - Notes - General Index / Biblical Reference Index |
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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| BX/D 012 | BX/D 012 | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |
