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Tropologies

Ethics and Invention in England, c. 1350-1600 [Paperback]

by Ryan McDermott

    • Author

      Ryan McDermott

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      University of Notre Dame Press

    • Published

      April 2016

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    Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literaryand ethical invention. The "tropological imperative" demands that words be turned into works-books as well as deeds. Beginning with Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great, then treating monuments of exegesis such as the Glossa ordinaria and Nicholas of Lyra, as well as theorists including Thomas Aquinas, Erasmus, Martin Luther, and others, Tropologies reveals the unwritten history of a major hermeneutical theory and inventive practice. Late medieval and early Reformation writers adapted tropological theory to invent new biblical poetry and drama that would invite readers to participate in salvation history by inventing their own new works.
    Tropologies reinterprets a wide range of medieval and early modern texts and performances-including the Patience-Poet, Piers Plowman, Chaucer, the York and Coventry cycle plays, and the literary circles of the reformist King Edward VI-to argue that "tropological invention" provided a robust alternative to rhetoricaltheories of literary production. In this groundbreaking revision of literary history, the Bible and biblical hermeneutics, commonly understood as sources of tumultuous discord, turn out to provide principles of continuity and mutuality across the Reformation's temporal and confessional rifts. Each chapter pursues an argument about poetic and dramatic form, linking questions of style and aesthetics to exegetical theory and theology. Because Tropologies attends to the flux of exegeticaltheory and practice across a watershed period of intellectual history, it is able to register subtle shifts in literary production, fine-tuning our sense of how literature and religion mutually and dynamically informed and reformed each other.

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    • Author

      Ryan McDermott

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      University of Notre Dame Press

    • Published

      April 2016

    • Weight

      654g

    • Page Count

      424

    • Dimensions

      153 x 229 x 26 mm

    • ISBN

      9780268035402

    • ISBN-10

      0268035407

    • Eden Code

      4450149

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    • Author/Creator: Ryan McDermott

    • ISBN: 9780268035402

    • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

    • Release Date: April 2016

    • Weight: 654g

    • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 26 mm

    • Eden Code: 4450149


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