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Autore: Pardes Ilana Visualizza persona
Titolo: Melville's Bibles [[electronic resource] /] / Ilana Pardes Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.3
Soggetto topico: Bible and literature
Religion and culture
Religion and literature - United States - History - 19th century
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Soggetto non controllato: 19th century american literature
american literature
antebellum american culture
bible
biblical exegesis
biblical interpretation
biblical outcasts
biblical rebels
biblical scholarship
christianity
conflict
good and evil
hardship
holy land travel narratives
idolatry
job
jonah
leviathan
literary scriptures
melville
moby dick
old testament
political sermons
politics of biblical reception
possession
rachel
redemption
religion
spiritual
sympathy
womens bibles
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-183) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Playing with Leviathan: Job and the Aesthetic Turn in Biblical Exegesis -- 2. "Jonah Historically Regarded": Improvisations on Kitto's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature -- 3. "Call Me Ishmael": The Bible and the Orient -- 4. Ahab, Idolatry, and the Question of Possession: Biblical Politics -- 5. Rachel's Inconsolable Cry: The Rise of Women's Bibles -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings-literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.
Titolo autorizzato: Melville's Bibles  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-38571-9
0-520-94152-7
9786611385712
1-4356-5377-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782162603321
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