Poetics of the Incarnation : Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love /

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The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"-an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cervone, Cristina Maria
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetics.
Incarnation in literature.
Christian poetry, English (Middle)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Incarnation dans la litterature.
Poesie chretienne anglaise (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Poetics > History > To 1500.
Christian poetry, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The "Enigma" of Signification in "Figurative" Language
  • Elisions of Abstract and Concrete, Epitomized in a "True-love"
  • Agency : When Christ as "Doer" Is Also the "Love Deed"
  • Time in Narrative : The Teleology of History Meets the Timelessness of God "in plenitudo temporis"
  • "He is in the mydde point" : Poetic Deep Structure and the Frameworks of Incarnational Poetics.

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