Isbn: 9781032997469 - john bunyan: allegory and imagination (routledge revivals) (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. E. Beatrice Batson (at the time of the original publication) was Professor of English Literature at Wheaton college, Illinois.First published in 1984, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination is informed not only by an enthusiasm for Bunya.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First published in 1984, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination is informed not only by an enthusiasm for Bunyan but by an understanding of the literary and theological currents of the time. Criticism of John Bunyan has generally presented him as 'an artist in spite of himself', an unreflective writer who chanced on a vein of untutored genius. It is hard to believe that a work like the Pilgrim's Progress, which has gripped readers through the centuries, came to being entirely by chance. In this book Professor Batson draws on the Augustinian tradition, prevalent in the Middle Ages, that literature reveals truth by similitudes, and enhances spiritual understanding.…