The poetics of prophecy: modern afterlives of a biblical tradition

Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studies, this book reveals how Romantic poetry is linked to modern biblical scholarship's development. On the one hand, scholars, intellectuals, and ar...

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Main Author: Raz, Yosefa 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023
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Summary:Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studies, this book reveals how Romantic poetry is linked to modern biblical scholarship's development. On the one hand, scholars, intellectuals, and artists discovered models of strong prophecy in biblical texts, shoring up aesthetic and nationalist ideals, while on the other, poets drew upon a counter-tradition of destabilizing, indeterminate, weak prophetic power. Yosefa Raz considers British and German Romanticism alongside their margins, incorporating Hebrew literature written at the turn of the twentieth century in the Russia Empire. Ultimately she explains the weakness of modern poet-prophets not only as a crisis of secularism but also, strikingly, as part of the instability of the biblical text itself. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details
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Introduction : prophetic strength and weakness -- Seraphic choirs and stuttering prophets : symmetry, disorder, and the invention of the literary bible -- Walking through William Blake's irregular bible -- The myth of primordial orality and the disfigured face of written prophecy -- Ahad Ha'am's mask of Moses and the secularization of prophetic power -- Haim Nahman Bialik : the national poet's cup of sorrows -- Afterword : an untuning
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 216 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009366311
DOI:10.1017/9781009366311

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