'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770-1880Cambridge University Press, 1980 M06 5 - 361 pages Dr Schaffer outlines the development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism, especially its German origins and its reception in England, and studies the influence of this movement in the work of specific writers: Coleridge Hölderlin, Browning, and George Eliot. The 'higher criticism' treated sacred scripture as literature and as history, as the product of its time, and the highest expression of a developing group consciousness; it challenged current views on the authorship and dating of the Pentateuch and the Gospels, on inspiration, prophecy, and canonicity, and formulated a new apologetics closely linked with the growth of Romantic aesthetics. The importance of this study is that it shows that readings of specific literary texts can intersect with general movements of thought and action through the scrutiny of a clearly defined intellectual discipline, here the higher criticism, which developed as a particular expression of the larger trends in the history of the period. Dr Shaffer throws light on individual works of literature, the formation between England and Germany, and the bases of European Romanticism. |
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... natural and unavoidable , is the result of arbitrary and conventional and therefore ill - considered selection of subject - matter . It is the result of an inadequate methodology of literary criticism . Raymond Williams has criticized ...
... natural and unavoidable , is the result of arbitrary and conventional and therefore ill - considered selection of subject - matter . It is the result of an inadequate methodology of literary criticism . Raymond Williams has criticized ...
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... be at stake . Despite the central importance for all of Coleridge's thinking of the nature of religious verity , there is no study of Coleridge's interest in , and contribution to , the higher criticism : German histories 6 Introduction.
... be at stake . Despite the central importance for all of Coleridge's thinking of the nature of religious verity , there is no study of Coleridge's interest in , and contribution to , the higher criticism : German histories 6 Introduction.
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... natural science , to view language itself as the sole residence of truth . Yet this continuity ought , it seems to me , to be a warning and a call to self - analysis rather than an affirmation of the method . In giving the history of ...
... natural science , to view language itself as the sole residence of truth . Yet this continuity ought , it seems to me , to be a warning and a call to self - analysis rather than an affirmation of the method . In giving the history of ...
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... nature ; and this can be read at the margins of a period , as Georges Bataille and Barthes have read Balzac's story ' Sarrasine ' as a ' limit - text ' in which extreme possibilities open out into the future . Thus one can consider not ...
... nature ; and this can be read at the margins of a period , as Georges Bataille and Barthes have read Balzac's story ' Sarrasine ' as a ' limit - text ' in which extreme possibilities open out into the future . Thus one can consider not ...
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Contents
The Fall of Jerusalem Coleridges unwritten epic | 17 |
The visionary character Revelation and the lyrical ballad | 62 |
The oriental idyll | 96 |
Holderlins Patmos ode and Kubla Khan mythological doubling | 145 |
Brownings St John the casuistry of the higher criticism | 191 |
Daniel Deronda and the conventions of fiction | 225 |
Eichhorns outline of the poetic action of the Book of Revelation | 292 |
A translation of Holderlins Patmos | 296 |
Patmos | 303 |
Notes | 309 |
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