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Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick explores one way in which William Bradford, Nathanie...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheick, William J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©1992.
Temas:
1600-1775
American literature > Puritan authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
American literature > New England > History and criticism.
Christian literature, American > History and criticism.
Puritans > New England > Intellectual life.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
Rhetoric > United States > History.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs puritains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire et critique.
Littérature chrétienne américaine > Histoire et critique.
Puritains > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle.
Rhétorique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Rhétorique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
RELIGION > Christianity > Protestant.
Rhetoric.
American literature.
American literature > Colonial period.
American literature > Puritan authors.
Christian literature, American.
English language > Rhetoric.
Puritans > Intellectual life.
New England.
United States.
American literature > History and criticism > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
American literature > History and criticism > New England
American literature > Puritan authors > History and criticism
Christian literature, American > History and criticism
English language > Rhetoric > United States
Geschichte > 1600-1900
Puritans > Intellectual life > New England
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Necessity of Language; Words Like Wooden Horses William Bradford and Thomas Morton; Double-Talk Renaissance and Reformed Traditions; Concealed Verbal Artistry Richard Mather and Edward Taylor; 2. The Winding Sheet of Meditative Verse; The Wrack of Mortal Poets Anne Bradstreet's Contemplations
  • Unfolding the Twisting Serpent Edward Taylor's Meditation 1.19
  • 3. Laughter and Death; All in Jest Nathaniel Ward's The Simple Cobler; Dissolving Stones Urian Oakes's Elegy on Thomas Shepard; 4. Breaking Verbal Icons.
  • Nature, Reason, and Language Jonathan Edwards in ReactionFrom Something to Nothing to Everything Edwards's Early Sermons; 5. Islands of Meaning; Eighteenth-Century Allegory or Satire? Nathan Fiske's An Allegorical Description
  • The Letter Killeth Edward Bellamy's To Whom This May Come
  • Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y; Z.

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