Elegant Jeremiahs (Routledge Revivals): The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer - Routledge Revivals - George P. Landow - Libros - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138852228 - 19 de enero de 2015
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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. Writing in the 1970s, Norman Mailer seems to owe nothing to the biblical for his description of a long hot wait to buy a cold drink while reporting on the first voyage to the moon. Yet both Arnold and Mailer, George P. Landow asserts in this book, are sages, writers 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.

In this book, first published in 1986, Landow defines the genre by exploring its rhetoric, an approach that enables him to illuminate the relationships among representative works of the nineteenth century to one another, to biblical, oratorical, and homiletic traditions, and to such twentieth-century writers as Lawrence, Didion, and Mailer.


200 pages

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 19 de enero de 2015
ISBN13 9781138852228
Editores Taylor & Francis Ltd
Páginas 202
Dimensiones 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   530 g
Lengua Inglés  

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