The Politics of Middle English Parables: Fiction, Theology, and Social Practice
Parables occupy a prominent place in Middle English literature, appearing in dream visions and story collections, lives of Christ and devotional treatises. Ambiguous, paradoxical, and filled with reversals of expectation, they stand apart from other instructional stories in their tendency to render the familiar unfamiliar.Most scholarship treats parables as stable vehicles of Christian teaching, but this book takes a new approach, highlighting the many variations and points of conflict between different renditions. It looks at how translators negotiated scriptural portrayals of everyday life relevant to labour laws, social inequality, charity…
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Weitere Autoren: Matthews, David (Hrsg.) / Bernau, Anke (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3117-1
- EAN: 9781526131171
- Produktnummer: 26631571
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 463 g
- Gewicht: 463
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Mary Raschko is Assistant Professor of English at Whitman College
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