Entangled Voices : Genre and the Religious Construction of the Self.

This work attempts to understand how the concepts of "voice" and "genre" function in texts, especially religious texts. The theory given is applied to five specific literary texts, detailing the ways in which a text constructs a voice, and in the process, a self.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruf, Frederick J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Temas:
Donne, John, > 1572-1631. > Holy sonnets.
Wilson, Robert, > 1941- > Einstein on the beach.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, > 1772-1834. > Biographia literaria.
Levi, Primo. > Sistema periodico.
Holy sonnets (Donne, John)
Biographia literaria (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor)
Sistema periodico (Levi, Primo)
Religious literature, English > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Self in literature.
Literary form.
Littérature religieuse anglaise > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Genres littéraires.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Literary form
Self in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Introduction: Hearing Voices; Chapter 1. The Voices of Narrative, Lyric, and Drama; Chapter 2. "Jogona's Great Treasure": Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic Intelligibility; Chapter 3. "Intoxicated with Intimacy": The Lyric Voice in John Donne's Holy Sonnets; Chapter 4. "The Circle of Chalk": Narrative Voice in Primo Levi's The Periodic Table; Chapter 5. "Survival and Distance": The Dramatic Voice in Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach; Chapter 6. "Harmonized Chaos": The Mixed Voice of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria; Chapter 7. Conclusion: Genre and Instability; Notes; Index.

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