Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan

ISBN-13: 9780199242405 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 412 str.

Michael Davies

Opis

Graceful Reading is a study of the writings of the 17th-century preacher John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress. The book reassesses the relationship between Bunyan's theology and his narrative style, redefining them both according to a more specific understanding of 17th-century "Calvinism," and a more "postmodernist" understanding of narrative.

Recenzje

Davies provides an elegant and persuasive explication of the power of Bunyan's prose and brings us back in touch with the affective reality which informs Bunyan's ultimate and over-riding conviction that the language of the Bedford congregation, like that of the Bedford women, is a language of joy and consolation.

O autorze

Michael Davies is Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester