Freedman, L;
(2020)
Errant Boys and Accidental Falls: Ontological Exegesis in Dickinson's Old Testament Poems.
Literature and Theology
, 34
(1)
pp. 19-40.
10.1093/litthe/frz038.
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Abstract
This article reads several of Dickinson’s Old Testament poems in a way that suggests her exegesis was not just concerned with epistemic limit, as scholarship to date has emphasised, but also with the ontological effects of biblical narrative and interpretation: the extent to which hermeneutics both shape and reflect a way of being in the world. It discusses the ways in which Dickinson tests the reach of revisionary, poetic, exegesis, situates Dickinson in relation to a 19th-century shift from Providence to circumstance and asks whether narratives of chance function that differently to the received narrative of Providence.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Errant Boys and Accidental Falls: Ontological Exegesis in Dickinson's Old Testament Poems |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1093/litthe/frz038 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frz038 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Emily Dickinson; Poetry; Exegesis; Authorship; Old Testament; Ontology. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10081168 |
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