Williams, R. (2013) 'Divine liquidness of diction … divine fluidity of movement': Reading Poetry after Matthew Arnold and the Higher Biblical Criticism. Literature and Theology, 27(3), pp. 313-329. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/frt005)
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Abstract
This essay is prompted by the turn since 2000 in literary study to ‘formalism’ (‘New Formalism’) to return to Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) and his work to realign the Bible and literature after Strauss’ mid-century higher biblical criticism. The essay interrogates the terms of Arnold’s poetic-religious formulations, and his reputation for skepticism, so as to recover an obscured energy in how the academy reads poetry in his wake. It demonstrates this through a reading of the ‘man of sorrows’ and weeping in Arnold’s ‘Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse’, seeking ways to recover the historical conditions of faith and expression.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Williams, Dr Rhian |
| Authors: | Williams, R. |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BT Doctrinal Theology P Language and Literature > PE English |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Journal Name: | Literature and Theology |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISSN: | 0269-1205 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1477-4623 |
| Published Online: | 19 March 2013 |
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