Dialogues of the Word: The Bible as Literature According to Bakhtin
Dialogues of the Word: The Bible as Literature According to Bakhtin
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In a book of essays published in 1920 entitled The Art of Reading, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch offers an ironic image of "the Bible as literature," one that exposes the frequent cross-purposes of literary and historical study. "Imagine a volume including the great books of our own literature," he invites his readers, "all bound together in some such order as this":
Paradise Lost, Darwin Descent of Man, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Walter Map,Mill On Liberty, Hooker Ecclesiastical Polity, The Annual Register, Froissart,Adam Smith Wealth of Nations, Domesday Book, Le Morte d'Arthur, Campbell Lives of the Lord Chancellors, Boswell Johnson, Barbour The Bruce, Hakluyt Voyages, Clarendon, Macaulay, the plays of Shakespeare, Shelley Prometheus Unbound, The Faerie Queene, Palgrave Golden Treasury, Bacon Essays, Swinburne Poems and Ballads, FitzGerald Omar Khayyam, Wordsworth,Browning, Sartor Resartus, Burton Anatomy of Melancholy, Burke Letters on a Regicide Peace, Ossian, Piers Plowman, Burke Thoughts on the Present Discontents, Quarles,Newman Apologia, Donne Sermons, Ruskin,Blake, The Deserted Village, Manfred, Blair Grave, The Complaint of Deor, Bailey Festus, Thompson Hound of Heaven.