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'All Possible Art'
Kristine A. Wolberg
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Description for 'All Possible Art'
Hardback. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 14. Weight in Grams: 431.
Long studied for historical, biographical, or sociological purposes, George Herbert's The Country Parson has not received the literary appreciation it deserves. Through a literary analysis exploring genre, themes, topics, emphasis, context, and models, this study finds The Country Parson to be a carefully conceived and executed piece of literary prose. Herbert wrote this work after the popular Renaissance courtesy book rather than in the more common homiletic style of contemporary clerical manuals. While his techniques for artful self-fashioning might have been borrowed from the pages of Castiglione or Della Casa, his purposes could not. Herbert believed in the mimetic effects ... Read more
Long studied for historical, biographical, or sociological purposes, George Herbert's The Country Parson has not received the literary appreciation it deserves. Through a literary analysis exploring genre, themes, topics, emphasis, context, and models, this study finds The Country Parson to be a carefully conceived and executed piece of literary prose. Herbert wrote this work after the popular Renaissance courtesy book rather than in the more common homiletic style of contemporary clerical manuals. While his techniques for artful self-fashioning might have been borrowed from the pages of Castiglione or Della Casa, his purposes could not. Herbert believed in the mimetic effects ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
Number of Pages
165
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473841
SKU
V9781611473841
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About Kristine A. Wolberg
Kristine A. Wolberg has taught literature and writing courses for the University of Notre Dame, Houghton College, and Colorado Christian University and has lectured at the University of Notre Dame, Calvin College, and the Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies.
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