Bunyan Studies

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Bunyan Studies

Bunyan Studies PDF Author:
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Pages : 108

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The Portable Bunyan

The Portable Bunyan PDF Author: Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691116563
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is it changed by the intellectual environments it encounters? What does the transnational circulation mean for its reception back home? Exploring the international life of a particularly long-lived and widely traveled book, Isabel Hofmeyr follows The Pilgrim's Progress as it circulates through multiple contexts--and into some 200 languages--focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This feat of literary history is based on intensive research that criss-crossed among London, Georgia, Kingston, Bedford (John Bunyan's hometown), and much of sub-Saharan Africa. Finely written and unusually wide-ranging, it accounts for how The Pilgrim's Progress traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled, and, finally, how its circulation throughout the empire affected Bunyan's standing back in England. The result is a new intellectual approach to Bunyan--one that weaves together British, African, and Caribbean history with literary and translation studies and debates over African Christianity and mission. Even more important, this book is a rare example of a truly worldly study of "world literature"--and of the critical importance of translation, both linguistic and cultural.

The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan

The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan PDF Author: Anne Dunan-Page
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521733081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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A comprehensive introduction to Bunyan's life and works, examining their place in the broader context of seventeenth-century history and literature.

The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan

The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan PDF Author: Michael Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191649457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 760

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The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception of his writings, in particular his allegorical narrative, The Pilgrim's Progress. Interdisciplinary and comprehensive, it provides unparalleled scope and expertise, ranging from literary theory to religious history and from theology to post-colonial criticism. The Handbook is structured in four sections. The first, 'Contexts', deals with the historical Bunyan in relation to various aspects of his life, background, and work as a nonconformist: from basic facts of biography to the nature of his church at Bedford, his theology, and the religious and political cultures of seventeenth-century Dissent. Part 2 considers Bunyan's literary output: from his earliest printed tracts to his posthumously published works. Offering discrete chapters on Bunyan's major works - Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), The Pilgrim's Progress, Parts I and II (1678; 1684); The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), and The Holy War (1682) - this section nevertheless covers Bunyan's oeuvre in its entirety: controversial and pastoral, narrative and poetic. Section 3, 'Directions in Criticism', engages with Bunyan in literary critical terms, focusing on his employment of form and language and on theoretical approaches to his writings: from psychoanalytic to post-secular criticism. Section 4, 'Journeys', tackles some of the ways in which Bunyan's works, and especially The Pilgrim's Progress, have travelled throughout the world since the late seventeenth century, assessing Bunyan's place within key literary periods and their distinctive developments: from the eighteenth-century novel to the writing of 'empire'.

Studies in the English of Bunyan

Studies in the English of Bunyan PDF Author: John Boyd Grier
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Bunyan Studies

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Pages : 108

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The Portable Bunyan

The Portable Bunyan PDF Author: Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691188440
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :

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How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is it changed by the intellectual environments it encounters? What does the transnational circulation mean for its reception back home? Exploring the international life of a particularly long-lived and widely traveled book, Isabel Hofmeyr follows The Pilgrim's Progress as it circulates through multiple contexts--and into some 200 languages--focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This feat of literary history is based on intensive research that criss-crossed among London, Georgia, Kingston, Bedford (John Bunyan's hometown), and much of sub-Saharan Africa. Finely written and unusually wide-ranging, it accounts for how The Pilgrim's Progress traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled, and, finally, how its circulation throughout the empire affected Bunyan's standing back in England. The result is a new intellectual approach to Bunyan--one that weaves together British, African, and Caribbean history with literary and translation studies and debates over African Christianity and mission. Even more important, this book is a rare example of a truly worldly study of "world literature"--and of the critical importance of translation, both linguistic and cultural.

John Bunyan

John Bunyan PDF Author: Tamsin Spargo
Publisher: Writers and Their Work (Paperb
ISBN: 0746309821
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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John Bunyan is an accessible introduction to the life, times, writings and significance of the seventeenth-century nonconformist whose Pilgrim's Progress was the first international best-seller. It tracks a story from persecution to persuasion that took a poor English tinker's words into the world's libraries.

The Writing of John Bunyan

The Writing of John Bunyan PDF Author: Tamsin Spargo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429774060
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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First published in 1997, this volume is an attempt to prise open the name of John Bunyan. It aims to examine the operations of that name, to explore the discursive techniques which produced the figure of this author, both in the seventeenth century and later, and to identify the different meanings which have been ascribed to it in the history of its production. It may be read as a ‘Dear John’ letter to the author, or as an exercise in cultural materialism which examines the production and reproduction of a particular figure of authority, the author, within specific cultural formations at different historical moments.

Studies in the English of Bunyan

Studies in the English of Bunyan PDF Author: J. B. Grier
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382183528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.