Elegant Jeremiahs : the sage from Carlyle to Mailer / / George P. Landow

• Autore: Landow George P.
• Pubblicazione: Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 828.08; 818.08
• Soggetto topico: American prose literature - History and criticism; Wisdom in literature; Prophecies in literature; English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: English-speaking countries Intellectual life
• Note generali: First published in 1986 by Cornell University Press.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Works Frequently Cited""; ""Introduction: The Genre of the Sage""; ""1 The Prophetic Pattern""; ""2 Symbolical Grotesques""; ""3 The Word Restored: Definition, Redefinition, and Satiric Redefinition""; ""4 The Sage as Master of Experience""; ""5 Ethos, or the Appeal to Credibility""; ""Afterword""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Labelled "an elegant Jeremiah" by a journalist of his day, the urbane Victorian Matthew Arnold must have received the comparison with the Old Testament prophet uneasily. Yet George P. Landow asserts in this book that Arnold is a sage, a writer in the nonfiction prose form of secular prophecy, a genre richly influenced by the episodic structures and harshly critical attitudes toward society which characterize Old Testament prophetic literature.
• Titolo autorizzato: Elegant Jeremiahs
• ISBN: 1-315-72066-3; 1-317-51963-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959278203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge revivals.