Melville's Bibles [[electronic resource] /] / Ilana Pardes
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| Autore: |
Pardes Ilana
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| Titolo: |
Melville's Bibles [[electronic resource] /] / Ilana Pardes
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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