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Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts
Deeanne Westbrook
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Description for Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts
Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches - intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics - Westbrook first analyzes Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation. Subsequent chapters consider Wordsworth's adaptation of biblical narrative forms - etymological tales, parables, and mystical allegories. Closing chapters examine some extraordinary linguistic innovations in Wordsworth's revisions of biblical apocalypse, techniques that permit the poet to express the ineffable and to reveal nothing.
The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches - intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics - Westbrook first analyzes Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation. Subsequent chapters consider Wordsworth's adaptation of biblical narrative forms - etymological tales, parables, and mystical allegories. Closing chapters examine some extraordinary linguistic innovations in Wordsworth's revisions of biblical apocalypse, techniques that permit the poet to express the ineffable and to reveal nothing.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349387199
SKU
V9781349387199
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99-15
About Deeanne Westbrook
DEANE WESTBROOK is Professor of English at Portland State University where she teaches courses in British romanticism, poetry, criticism, mythology, biblical literature, baseball and myth, nineteenth-century studies, and classical Greek civilization. Her published works include articles on Genesis, northern European mythology, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, and a book, Ground Rules: Baseball and Myth.
Reviews for Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts
'...a rich and rewarding study of Wordworth's art, carefully situated within established scholarship...' - Laura Dabundo, The Wordsworth Circle