Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in RepresentationUniversity of Chicago Press, 1995 M04 15 - 256 páginas Literal Figures is the most important work on John Bunyan to appear in many years, and a significant contribution to the history and theory of representation. Beginning with mainstream Puritan responses to a challenge to orthodoxy—a man who claims he has been literally transformed into Christ and his companion who claims to be the "Spouse of Christ"—and concluding with an analysis of The Pilgrim's Progress, which John Bunyan described as a "fall into Allegory," Thomas Luxon presents detailed analyses of key moments in the Reformation crisis of representation. Why did Puritan Christianity repeatedly turn to allegorical forms of representation in spite of its own intolerance of "Allegorical fancies?" Luxon demonstrates that Protestant doctrine itself was a kind of allegory in hiding, one that enabled Puritans to forge a figural view of reality while championing the "literal" and the "historical". He argues that for Puritanism to survive its own literalistic, anti-symbolic, and millenarian challenges, a "fall" back into allegory was inevitable. Representative of this "fall," The Pilgrim's Progress marks the culminating moment at which the Reformation's war against allegory turns upon itself. An essential work for understanding both the history and theory of representation and the work of John Bunyan, Literal Figures skillfully blends historical and critical methods to describe the most important features of early modern Protestant and Puritan culture. |
Contenido
The Figural View of History | 34 |
Being a Son of God | 77 |
Hermeneutics of Experience | 130 |
Allegory and Experience in | 159 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abraham allegory announce appears Auerbach begotten birth body born Boyarin called Calvin carnal catachresis chapter chiliastic Christ Christian Church claim discourse displacement distinction divine doctrine echo Ellis equivocation eternal exegesis experience faith false father fiction Fish Fish's flesh fleshly Franklin and Gadbury Galatians genealogy Genesis God's Gospel Grace Abounding hath Hebrew hermeneutics Holy human identity imagines insists interpretation Ishmael Israel Israelite James Nayler Jesus Jewish Jews John Bunyan Joseph Judah knowledge language Lewalski literal sense Little-faith Lodowick Muggleton Lord Luther meaning medieval metaphor midrash millenarian monism mother narrative Old Testament ontological passage Paul Pilgrim's Progress pilgrims precisely Preus promise Protestant Protestantism Puritan Quakers radically reader reading reality Reformation representation Scripture similitude simply sons soteriology soul speaking Spirit story Talkative Tamar thing signified thou thought tion Torah tropologies true truly truth Tyndale typology understanding utter William Franklin women words
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