A history of the English Bible as literature / / David Norton [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Norton David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 809/.93522 |
Altri autori (Persone) | NortonDavid |
Soggetto topico | Bible as literature |
ISBN |
1-107-11928-6
0-511-00940-2 1-280-42944-5 0-511-61225-7 0-511-17233-8 0-511-15045-8 0-511-31019-6 0-511-04952-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE AS LITERATURE; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Plates; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Creators of English; THE CHALLENGE TO THE TRANSLATORS; LITERAL TRANSLATION: ROLLE'S PSALTER AND THE WYCLIF BIBLE; WILLIAM TYNDALE; Introduction; Love for 'the sweet pith within'; Luther and Erasmus; Tyndale, Thomas More and English; JOHN CHEKE AND THE INKHORN; MYLES COVERDALE; CHAPTER TWO: From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible: arguments about language; OFFICIAL BIBLES; OPPOSING CAMPS; The Geneva Bible; The Rheims-Douai Bible
The Martin-Fulke controversyDOES THE VERBAL FORM MATTER?; CHAPTER THREE: The King James Bible; THE EXCLUDED SCHOLAR: HUGH BROUGHTON; RULES TO MEET THE CHALLENGE; THE PREFACE; BOIS'S NOTES; CONCLUSION; EPILOGUE: BROUGHTON'S LAST WORD; CHAPTER FOUR: Literary implications of Bible presentation; PRESENTATIONS OF THE TEXT, 1525-1625; JOHN LOCKE'S CRITICISM OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE TEXT; CHAPTER FIVE: The struggle for acceptance; THE DEFEAT OF THE GENEVA BIBLE; THE FAILURE OF REVISION; Ambrose Ussher; Commonwealth attempts at revision; QUOTING THE GOOD BOOK; THE LITERARY RECEPTION John Selden and dirty earsRobert Boyle against the wits; CHAPTER SIX: The Psalter in verse and poetry; 'FIDELITY RATHER THAN POETRY'; 'A GREAT PREJUDICE TO THE NEW'; AN ASIDE: VERSE EPITOMES OF THE BIBLE; IDEAS OF BIBLICAL POETRY; THE SIDNEY PSALMS; GEORGE WITHER AND THE PSALTER; CHAPTER SEVEN: 'The eloquentest books in the world'; THE ELOQUENT BIBLE; Thomas Becon and 'the glorious triumph of God's most blessed word'; Manuals of rhetoric; Eloquence and divine inspiration; DIVINE INSPIRATION; JOHN DONNE; CONQUERING THE CLASSICS; CONFLICT OVER THE BIBLE AS A MODEL FOR STYLE THE BIBLE 'DISPUTED, RHYMED, SUNG AND JANGLED'WIT, ATHEISM AND THE SAD CASE OF THOMAS AIKENHEAD; CHAPTER EIGHT: Writers and the Bible 1: Milton and Bunyan; 'THE BEST MATERIALS IN THE WORLD FOR POESY'; JOHN MILTON; JOHN BUNYAN; CHAPTER NINE: The early eighteenth century and the King James Bible; 'ALL THE DISADVANTAGES OF AN OLD PROSE TRANSLATION'; The superior language; Longinus and Boileau; The growth of a commonplace; JOHN HUSBANDS; ANTHONY BLACKWALL; 'A KIND OF STANDARD FOR LANGUAGE TO THE COMMON PEOPLE'; A standard; The common people; CHAPTER TEN: Mid-century ROBERT LOWTH' S DE SACRA POESI HEBRAEORUMUNCOUTH, HARSH AND OBSOLETE; Anthony Purver and archaic words; Revision gets a bad name; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The critical rise of the King James Bible; THE INFLUENCE OF POPULAR FEELING; LOWTH AND THE ENGLISH BIBLE; MYTHS ARISE; GEORGE CAMPBELL AND THE KJB AS A LITERARY EXAMPLE; THE KJB IN LITERARY DISCUSSIONS OF THE BIBLE; REVISION OR 'SUPERSTITIOUS VENERATION'; RANCOROUS REASON AND BROUHAHA; CHAPTER TWELVE: Writers and the Bible 2: the Romantics; THE FAKER AND THE MADMAN; WILLIAM BLAKE AND 'THE POETIC GENIUS' WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW LITERARY SENSE OF THE BIBLE |
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A history of the English Bible as literature / / David Norton [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Norton David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 809/.93522 |
Altri autori (Persone) | NortonDavid |
Soggetto topico | Bible as literature |
ISBN |
1-107-11928-6
0-511-00940-2 1-280-42944-5 0-511-61225-7 0-511-17233-8 0-511-15045-8 0-511-31019-6 0-511-04952-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE AS LITERATURE; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Plates; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Creators of English; THE CHALLENGE TO THE TRANSLATORS; LITERAL TRANSLATION: ROLLE'S PSALTER AND THE WYCLIF BIBLE; WILLIAM TYNDALE; Introduction; Love for 'the sweet pith within'; Luther and Erasmus; Tyndale, Thomas More and English; JOHN CHEKE AND THE INKHORN; MYLES COVERDALE; CHAPTER TWO: From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible: arguments about language; OFFICIAL BIBLES; OPPOSING CAMPS; The Geneva Bible; The Rheims-Douai Bible
The Martin-Fulke controversyDOES THE VERBAL FORM MATTER?; CHAPTER THREE: The King James Bible; THE EXCLUDED SCHOLAR: HUGH BROUGHTON; RULES TO MEET THE CHALLENGE; THE PREFACE; BOIS'S NOTES; CONCLUSION; EPILOGUE: BROUGHTON'S LAST WORD; CHAPTER FOUR: Literary implications of Bible presentation; PRESENTATIONS OF THE TEXT, 1525-1625; JOHN LOCKE'S CRITICISM OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE TEXT; CHAPTER FIVE: The struggle for acceptance; THE DEFEAT OF THE GENEVA BIBLE; THE FAILURE OF REVISION; Ambrose Ussher; Commonwealth attempts at revision; QUOTING THE GOOD BOOK; THE LITERARY RECEPTION John Selden and dirty earsRobert Boyle against the wits; CHAPTER SIX: The Psalter in verse and poetry; 'FIDELITY RATHER THAN POETRY'; 'A GREAT PREJUDICE TO THE NEW'; AN ASIDE: VERSE EPITOMES OF THE BIBLE; IDEAS OF BIBLICAL POETRY; THE SIDNEY PSALMS; GEORGE WITHER AND THE PSALTER; CHAPTER SEVEN: 'The eloquentest books in the world'; THE ELOQUENT BIBLE; Thomas Becon and 'the glorious triumph of God's most blessed word'; Manuals of rhetoric; Eloquence and divine inspiration; DIVINE INSPIRATION; JOHN DONNE; CONQUERING THE CLASSICS; CONFLICT OVER THE BIBLE AS A MODEL FOR STYLE THE BIBLE 'DISPUTED, RHYMED, SUNG AND JANGLED'WIT, ATHEISM AND THE SAD CASE OF THOMAS AIKENHEAD; CHAPTER EIGHT: Writers and the Bible 1: Milton and Bunyan; 'THE BEST MATERIALS IN THE WORLD FOR POESY'; JOHN MILTON; JOHN BUNYAN; CHAPTER NINE: The early eighteenth century and the King James Bible; 'ALL THE DISADVANTAGES OF AN OLD PROSE TRANSLATION'; The superior language; Longinus and Boileau; The growth of a commonplace; JOHN HUSBANDS; ANTHONY BLACKWALL; 'A KIND OF STANDARD FOR LANGUAGE TO THE COMMON PEOPLE'; A standard; The common people; CHAPTER TEN: Mid-century ROBERT LOWTH' S DE SACRA POESI HEBRAEORUMUNCOUTH, HARSH AND OBSOLETE; Anthony Purver and archaic words; Revision gets a bad name; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The critical rise of the King James Bible; THE INFLUENCE OF POPULAR FEELING; LOWTH AND THE ENGLISH BIBLE; MYTHS ARISE; GEORGE CAMPBELL AND THE KJB AS A LITERARY EXAMPLE; THE KJB IN LITERARY DISCUSSIONS OF THE BIBLE; REVISION OR 'SUPERSTITIOUS VENERATION'; RANCOROUS REASON AND BROUHAHA; CHAPTER TWELVE: Writers and the Bible 2: the Romantics; THE FAKER AND THE MADMAN; WILLIAM BLAKE AND 'THE POETIC GENIUS' WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW LITERARY SENSE OF THE BIBLE |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780243603321 |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
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A history of the English Bible as literature / / David Norton |
Autore | Norton David |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 809/.93522 |
Altri autori (Persone) | NortonDavid |
Soggetto topico | Bible as literature |
ISBN |
1-107-11928-6
0-511-00940-2 1-280-42944-5 0-511-61225-7 0-511-17233-8 0-511-15045-8 0-511-31019-6 0-511-04952-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE AS LITERATURE; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Plates; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Creators of English; THE CHALLENGE TO THE TRANSLATORS; LITERAL TRANSLATION: ROLLE'S PSALTER AND THE WYCLIF BIBLE; WILLIAM TYNDALE; Introduction; Love for 'the sweet pith within'; Luther and Erasmus; Tyndale, Thomas More and English; JOHN CHEKE AND THE INKHORN; MYLES COVERDALE; CHAPTER TWO: From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible: arguments about language; OFFICIAL BIBLES; OPPOSING CAMPS; The Geneva Bible; The Rheims-Douai Bible
The Martin-Fulke controversyDOES THE VERBAL FORM MATTER?; CHAPTER THREE: The King James Bible; THE EXCLUDED SCHOLAR: HUGH BROUGHTON; RULES TO MEET THE CHALLENGE; THE PREFACE; BOIS'S NOTES; CONCLUSION; EPILOGUE: BROUGHTON'S LAST WORD; CHAPTER FOUR: Literary implications of Bible presentation; PRESENTATIONS OF THE TEXT, 1525-1625; JOHN LOCKE'S CRITICISM OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE TEXT; CHAPTER FIVE: The struggle for acceptance; THE DEFEAT OF THE GENEVA BIBLE; THE FAILURE OF REVISION; Ambrose Ussher; Commonwealth attempts at revision; QUOTING THE GOOD BOOK; THE LITERARY RECEPTION John Selden and dirty earsRobert Boyle against the wits; CHAPTER SIX: The Psalter in verse and poetry; 'FIDELITY RATHER THAN POETRY'; 'A GREAT PREJUDICE TO THE NEW'; AN ASIDE: VERSE EPITOMES OF THE BIBLE; IDEAS OF BIBLICAL POETRY; THE SIDNEY PSALMS; GEORGE WITHER AND THE PSALTER; CHAPTER SEVEN: 'The eloquentest books in the world'; THE ELOQUENT BIBLE; Thomas Becon and 'the glorious triumph of God's most blessed word'; Manuals of rhetoric; Eloquence and divine inspiration; DIVINE INSPIRATION; JOHN DONNE; CONQUERING THE CLASSICS; CONFLICT OVER THE BIBLE AS A MODEL FOR STYLE THE BIBLE 'DISPUTED, RHYMED, SUNG AND JANGLED'WIT, ATHEISM AND THE SAD CASE OF THOMAS AIKENHEAD; CHAPTER EIGHT: Writers and the Bible 1: Milton and Bunyan; 'THE BEST MATERIALS IN THE WORLD FOR POESY'; JOHN MILTON; JOHN BUNYAN; CHAPTER NINE: The early eighteenth century and the King James Bible; 'ALL THE DISADVANTAGES OF AN OLD PROSE TRANSLATION'; The superior language; Longinus and Boileau; The growth of a commonplace; JOHN HUSBANDS; ANTHONY BLACKWALL; 'A KIND OF STANDARD FOR LANGUAGE TO THE COMMON PEOPLE'; A standard; The common people; CHAPTER TEN: Mid-century ROBERT LOWTH' S DE SACRA POESI HEBRAEORUMUNCOUTH, HARSH AND OBSOLETE; Anthony Purver and archaic words; Revision gets a bad name; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The critical rise of the King James Bible; THE INFLUENCE OF POPULAR FEELING; LOWTH AND THE ENGLISH BIBLE; MYTHS ARISE; GEORGE CAMPBELL AND THE KJB AS A LITERARY EXAMPLE; THE KJB IN LITERARY DISCUSSIONS OF THE BIBLE; REVISION OR 'SUPERSTITIOUS VENERATION'; RANCOROUS REASON AND BROUHAHA; CHAPTER TWELVE: Writers and the Bible 2: the Romantics; THE FAKER AND THE MADMAN; WILLIAM BLAKE AND 'THE POETIC GENIUS' WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW LITERARY SENSE OF THE BIBLE |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821450203321 |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 | ||
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The King James Bible : a short history from Tyndale to today / / David Norton [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Norton David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 220.5/203 |
ISBN |
1-107-21837-3
1-139-20942-6 1-280-87900-9 1-139-22225-2 9786613720313 0-511-97544-9 1-139-21744-5 1-139-21436-5 1-139-22396-8 1-139-22053-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Predecessors; 2. Drafting the King James Bible; 3. 'I was a translator'; 4. Working on the King James Bible; 5. 1611: the first edition; 6. Printing, editing and the development of a standard text; 7. Reputation and future. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462381403321 |
Norton David
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 | ||
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The King James Bible : a short history from Tyndale to today / / David Norton [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Norton David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 220.5/203 |
ISBN |
1-107-21837-3
1-139-20942-6 1-280-87900-9 1-139-22225-2 9786613720313 0-511-97544-9 1-139-21744-5 1-139-21436-5 1-139-22396-8 1-139-22053-5 |
Classificazione | REL006220 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Predecessors; 2. Drafting the King James Bible; 3. 'I was a translator'; 4. Working on the King James Bible; 5. 1611: the first edition; 6. Printing, editing and the development of a standard text; 7. Reputation and future. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790354403321 |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 | ||
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