
Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular
Two Postmodern Perspectives
Alison Jack(Author)
Sheffield Academic Press
Published on 1. May 1999
Book
Hardback
235 pages
978-1-85075-954-6 (ISBN)
Description
The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been rewritten into texts across time. In the Revelation of John, the Hebrew Bible echoes and is reinvented, just as in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) many explicit and implicit readings and interpretations of the Bible are offered. In Texts Reading Texts, these readings of the Bible, and the ways in which Revelation and Hogg's Confessions have themselves been read, are considered from the two postmodern perspectives of marginalization and deconstruction. By reading the two seemingly unrelated texts side by side from these perspectives, traditional readings of them both are disturbed and challenged.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85075-954-6 (9781850759546)
DOI
CBID116591
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Person
Alison Jack is Professor of Bible and Literature and Principal of New College at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK.