Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Works of Matthew Arnold ...: God & Bible; a review of objections to 'literature and dogma.'
Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Works of Matthew Arnold: God & the Bible: a review of objections to 'literature and dogma.'
Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780403002016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780403002016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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God & the Bible
Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
God & the Bible. A Review of Objections to Literature & Dogma
Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385374456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385374456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Works of Matthew Arnold: God & the Bible: a review of objections to 'literature and dogma'
Author: Matthew Arnold
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Dickens, His Parables, and His Reader
Author: Linda M. Lewis
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826272649
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Charles Dickens once commented that in each of his Christmas stories there is “an express text preached on . . . always taken from the lips of Christ.” This preaching, Linda M. Lewis contends, does not end with his Christmas stories but extends throughout the body of his work. In Dickens, His Parables, and His Reader, Lewis examines parable and allegory in nine of Dickens’s novels as an entry into understanding the complexities of the relationship between Dickens and his reader. Through the combination of rhetorical analysis of religious allegory and cohesive study of various New Testament parables upon which Dickens based the themes of his novels, Lewis provides new interpretations of the allegory in his novels while illuminating Dickens’s religious beliefs. Specifically, she alleges that Dickens saw himself as valued friend and moral teacher to lead his “dear reader” to religious truth. Dickens’s personal gospel was that behavior is far more important than strict allegiance to any set of beliefs, and it is upon this foundation that we see allegory activated in Dickens’s characters. Oliver Twist and The Old Curiosity Shop exemplify the Victorian “cult of childhood” and blend two allegorical texts: Jesus’s Good Samaritan parable and John Bunyan’s ThePilgrim’s Progress. In Dombey and Son,Dickens chooses Jesus’s parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders. In the autobiographical David Copperfield, Dickens engages his reader through an Old Testament myth and a New Testament parable: the expulsion from Eden and the Prodigal Son, respectively. Led by his belief in and desire to preach his social gospel and broad church Christianity, Dickens had no hesitation in manipulating biblical stories and sermons to suit his purposes. Bleak House is Dickens’s apocalyptic parable about the Day of Judgment, while Little Dorrit echoes the line “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” from the Lord’s Prayer, illustrating through his characters that only through grace can all debt be erased. The allegory of the martyred savior is considered in Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens’s final completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, blends the parable of the Good and Faithful Servant with several versions of the Heir Claimant parable. While some recent scholarship debunks the sincerity of Dickens’s religious belief, Lewis clearly demonstrates that Dickens’s novels challenge the reader to investigate and develop an understanding of New Testament doctrine. Dickens saw his relationship with his reader as a crucial part of his storytelling, and through his use and manipulation of allegory and parables, he hoped to influence the faith and morality of that reader.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826272649
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Charles Dickens once commented that in each of his Christmas stories there is “an express text preached on . . . always taken from the lips of Christ.” This preaching, Linda M. Lewis contends, does not end with his Christmas stories but extends throughout the body of his work. In Dickens, His Parables, and His Reader, Lewis examines parable and allegory in nine of Dickens’s novels as an entry into understanding the complexities of the relationship between Dickens and his reader. Through the combination of rhetorical analysis of religious allegory and cohesive study of various New Testament parables upon which Dickens based the themes of his novels, Lewis provides new interpretations of the allegory in his novels while illuminating Dickens’s religious beliefs. Specifically, she alleges that Dickens saw himself as valued friend and moral teacher to lead his “dear reader” to religious truth. Dickens’s personal gospel was that behavior is far more important than strict allegiance to any set of beliefs, and it is upon this foundation that we see allegory activated in Dickens’s characters. Oliver Twist and The Old Curiosity Shop exemplify the Victorian “cult of childhood” and blend two allegorical texts: Jesus’s Good Samaritan parable and John Bunyan’s ThePilgrim’s Progress. In Dombey and Son,Dickens chooses Jesus’s parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders. In the autobiographical David Copperfield, Dickens engages his reader through an Old Testament myth and a New Testament parable: the expulsion from Eden and the Prodigal Son, respectively. Led by his belief in and desire to preach his social gospel and broad church Christianity, Dickens had no hesitation in manipulating biblical stories and sermons to suit his purposes. Bleak House is Dickens’s apocalyptic parable about the Day of Judgment, while Little Dorrit echoes the line “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” from the Lord’s Prayer, illustrating through his characters that only through grace can all debt be erased. The allegory of the martyred savior is considered in Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens’s final completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, blends the parable of the Good and Faithful Servant with several versions of the Heir Claimant parable. While some recent scholarship debunks the sincerity of Dickens’s religious belief, Lewis clearly demonstrates that Dickens’s novels challenge the reader to investigate and develop an understanding of New Testament doctrine. Dickens saw his relationship with his reader as a crucial part of his storytelling, and through his use and manipulation of allegory and parables, he hoped to influence the faith and morality of that reader.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Forming the Library of Clarence H. Clark ... Philadelphia
Author: Clarence Howard Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Signs for the Times
Author: Chris Brooks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317247779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
First published in 1984. Signs for the Times explores imaginative and creative relationships between three major areas of mid-Victorian arts: literature, painting and architecture. Through the detailed critical analysis of particular novels, prose writings, paintings and buildings, Chris Brooks establishes a fusion of realistic and symbolic values that he sees as central to the Victorian creative imagination. He argues that the creative achievement of the mid-nineteenth century needs to be seen far more as a whole than it has previously, and that fundamental imaginative terms are common to art and architecture, to major theoretical writers such as Carlyle, Ruskin and Rugin as well as to the central literary figure of Dickens. All those interested in literature, art, or architecture will welcome this interpretation of symbolic realism within the mid-Victorian world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317247779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
First published in 1984. Signs for the Times explores imaginative and creative relationships between three major areas of mid-Victorian arts: literature, painting and architecture. Through the detailed critical analysis of particular novels, prose writings, paintings and buildings, Chris Brooks establishes a fusion of realistic and symbolic values that he sees as central to the Victorian creative imagination. He argues that the creative achievement of the mid-nineteenth century needs to be seen far more as a whole than it has previously, and that fundamental imaginative terms are common to art and architecture, to major theoretical writers such as Carlyle, Ruskin and Rugin as well as to the central literary figure of Dickens. All those interested in literature, art, or architecture will welcome this interpretation of symbolic realism within the mid-Victorian world.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Forming the Library of Clarence H. Clark ...
Author: Clarence Howard Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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