Poetry Does Theology: Chaucer, Grosseteste, and the Pearl-Poet - Brossura

Rhodes, James Francis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0268038708 ISBN 13: 9780268038700

Casa editrice: Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 2001

Riassunto

What happens when poetry deals explicitly with a serious theological issue? In Poetry Does Theology, Jim Rhodes seeks one answer to that question by analyzing the symbiotic relationship that existed between theology and poetry in fourteenth-century England. He pays special attention to the narrative poems of Chaucer, Grosseteste, the Pearl-poet, the author of Saint Erkenwald, and Langland. Rhodes shows that Chaucer and his contemporaries wrote at the end of a linguistic and theological revolution-a time when revised perspectives on the creation and incarnation gave rise to a new humanistic spirit that transformed late medieval theological culture and spurred the development of vernacular theology and poetry. Rhodes' careful analysis describes how the relationship between theology and poetry underwent a radical transformation as the latter half of the fourteenth century progressed.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jim Rhodes is professor emeritus of English at Southern Connecticut State University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0268038708
• ISBN 13: 9780268038700
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 324
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Germania