Poetics of the Incarnation : Middle English writing and the leap of love /
The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The “Enigma” of Signification in “Figurative” Language
- Elisions of Abstract and Concrete, Epitomized in a “True-love”
- Agency : When Christ as “Doer” Is Also the “Love Deed”
- Time in Narrative : The Teleology of History Meets the Timelessness of God “in plenitudo temporis”
- “He is in the mydde point” : Poetic Deep Structure and the Frameworks of Incarnational Poetics.
