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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810273503321

Autore

Baildam John D

Titolo

Paradisal love : Johann Gottfried Herder and the Song of Songs / / John D. Baildam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c1999

ISBN

1-281-84148-X

9786611841485

0-567-43662-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 pages)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 298

Disciplina

223.906

Soggetti

Authors, German - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of London), 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 HERDER' S PREOCCUPATION WITH THE SONG OF SONGS; Chapter 2 HERDER'S APPROACH TO POETRY AND THE BIBLE: ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE SONG OF SONGS; Chapter 3 HERDER AS TRANSLATOR: A THEORETICAL CONTEXT FOR LIEDER DER LlEBE; Chapter 4 HERDER'S RECEPTION OF THE SONG OF SONGS: A COMPARISON WITH OTHER INTERPRETATIVE APPROACHES; Chapter 5 HERDER'S INTERPRETATION OF THE SONG OF SONGS; Chapter 6 HERDER'S TRANSLATIONS OF THE SONG OF SONGS; CONCLUSION; Appendix A: HERDER'S TRANSLATIONS OF THE SONG OF SONGS

Appendix B: LUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE SONG OF SONGS; Appendix C: GOETHE'S TRANSLATION OF THE SONG OF SONGS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first comprehensive study of Herder's preoccupation with the Song of Songs, Baildam considers the importance of this poetry in his thinking, and examines his commentaries and translations of 1776 and 1778. Despite Herder's claims to the contrary, his own cultural position is revealed in his translations, and in his unique interpretation of the work as the voice of pure, paradisal love. Starting with Herder's interest in the Song of Songs between 1765 and 1778, this book sets his reflections in the wider context of his relativistic views on the



nature of poetry, contemporary German