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James L. Kugel, ed.
Poetry and Prophecy: The Beginnings of a Literary Tradition.
Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1990.
Myth and Poetics series.
ISBN 0801495687;
ISBN-13: 9780801495687.
Paperback, perfect bound.
154x228x16mm.
xi,251pp.
English.
Good to very good condition: covers and base of pages a little grubby, corners of the back cover starting to split.This item £14.50
388g.
No medieval emphasis. Contents:
Kugel, Poets & prophets - overview;
Cooper, Imagining prophecy;
Kugel, David the prophet;
Nagy, Ancient Greek poetry, prophecy, & concepts of theory;
Clausen, Virgil's messianic Eclogue;
Zwettler, A Mantic manifesto - the sura of "The Poets" and the Qur'anic foundations of prophetic authority;
Heinrichs, Meaning of Mutanabbi;
Pagis, Poet as prophet in medieval Hebrew literature;
Ziolkowski, Nature of prophecy in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini;
Rhu After the Middle Ages - prophetic authority & human fallibility in renaissance epic.
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