The Literary Coherence of the Book of Micah: Remnant, Restoration, and Promise, Kenneth H. Cuffey, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015 (ISBN 978-0-567-00164-1), xx + 379 pp., hb £76

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-464
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bentall
Keyword(s):  
Literary Coherence

scholarly journals Personal Ideals as Metaphors

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICK RIGGLE
Keyword(s):  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
Personal Ideal ◽  
Personal Ideals ◽  
David Velleman ◽  
Literary Coherence

ABSTRACT:What is it to have and act on a personal ideal? Someone who aspires to be a philosopher might imaginatively think ‘I am a philosopher’ by way of motivating herself to think hard about a philosophical question. But doing so seems to require her to act on an inaccurate self-description, given that she is not yet what she regards herself as being. J. David Velleman develops the thought that action-by-ideal involves a kind of fictional self-conception. My aim is to expand our thinking about personal ideals by developing another way of understanding them. On this view action-by-ideal involves a kind of metaphorical self-conception. I investigate some salient differences between these views with the aim of understanding the different perspectives they take on the rationality of action-by-ideal. Where the fiction view runs into problems of literary coherence, the metaphor view exploits the richness of poetic invention. But action-by-ideal is a complex phenomenon about which there may be no tidy story to be told. This paper is an attempt to clarify and understand more of this messy terrain.

TRANSLATING SICILY

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Mallette
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Linguistic Complexity ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Single Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Languages ◽  
Literary Coherence

AbstractThis article sketches a theoretical strategy for approaching the literary history of Norman Sicily (centuries XI-XII). Because of its linguistic complexity—during the Norman era, Sicilians wrote in Arabic, Greek, and Latin—literary historians have resisted treating Siculo-Norman literature as a literary-historical category. Rather, the literature has been divided into three discrete, linguistically defined traditions, understood as colonial extensions of mainland literary traditions. Using a reading of Sicilian coins with multilingual inscriptions in order to examine the parallel use of multiple languages in a single "text," this article argues for a reconsideration of Sicilian literature of the era, one that looks at multilingualism not as a challenge to literary coherence but as constitutive of a literary culture.

Planting gardens: Mesopotamian influence on a Hebrew trope in Jeremiah 29

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-287
Author(s):  
Joseph W. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Royal Inscriptions ◽  
Literary Coherence

The version of the ‘building and planting’ conceptual pair found in Jeremiah 29:5 differs from the standard trope used elsewhere within the Hebrew Bible; it is the only example in which the object to be planted is a garden (גנה‎). Awareness of the exilic community’s Mesopotamian context potentially illuminates this alteration, as two mutually inclusive historical factors could have influenced the change. Jeremiah’s exhortation could account for the community’s agricultural context. By planting gardens, the exiles participated in the shift toward horticulture during the long 6th century and contributed to the שלום‎ of the region. Alternatively, Jeremiah 29:5 shares language with royal inscriptions of Esarhaddon. This proposed connection builds upon previous explorations of references to a 70-year exile elsewhere in both texts. The plausibility of the latter option would lend support to the literary coherence of Jeremiah 29:5–14, while the former suggests a 6th century provenance for the passage.

Polity of the Covenant People

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Dean McBride
Keyword(s):  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Literary Coherence

A work of extraordinary literary coherence and political sophistication, Deuteronomy's impact continues in our world through its influence on modern western constitutionalism.

La Flamme bibliographique : tradition et récits

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Cazes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
French Literature ◽  
The Real ◽  
Place Holder ◽  
Literary Coherence

On parle souvent des recueils de bibliographie comme d’ouvrages sans spécificité d’écriture : on y trouverait des fragments, des références à consulter, et non une poétique du discours savant. On y lit moins souvent encore des récits ! Dans l’imprécision et l’absence de définition générique, le terme « bibliographie » semble être appliqué par défaut, comme une non-détermination : les références seraient accumulées avec un souci de neutralité littéraire et constitueraient un hors-texte, au service des textes, sans écriture. Le lecteur consulterait, sans la lire, la bibliographie pour accéder au texte. Or, une analyse des titres et cohérences de trois grands recueils fondateurs de la tradition bibliographique en français (Bibliothèque Française de François Grudé de La Croix du Maine, 1585 ; Jugements des Savants d’Adrien Baillet, 1685 ; La France Littéraire de  Joseph-Marie Quérard, 1827) fait apparaître poétiques, discours et récits qui s’assemblent en une œuvre collective et mémorielle. Le motif narratif de l’enfant-bibliographe devient alors l’emblème des célébrations bibliographiques de la tradition.AbstractOne often uses the word “bibliography” as a place-holder term, that could designate a catalogue, a repertory, a description... Even more, bibliographies would be considered as works without a literary coherence nor depth: they would be commodities, gatherings of titles and references meant to be checked or consulted, never read as such. One rarely expects to find a discourse, and even less a narrative in these non-descript collections of fragments. Lacking precision and generic content, the word seems to be used by default, as a non-determination. References would then be collected and delivered with minimal auctorial or stylistic intervention so that they form a non-text, useful for accessing the real texts: those they refer to. One would then be authorized (and supposed) to read through bibliographies without reading them as texts. Now, a careful reading of three seminal bibliographies written for the French literature (Bibliothèque Française de François Grudé de La Croix du Maine, 1585 ; Jugements des Savants d’Adrien Baillet, 1685 ; La France Littéraire de  Joseph-Marie Quérard) brings a much more nuanced picture : there is a bibliographical genres, individual bibliographies do deliver discourses, they do tell stories and, joined to each other, they do take part in a collective and memorial project serving the formation and the recognition of cultural identity. The figure of the bibliographer-child can thus be taken as an emblem for the bibliographical celebration of tradition.

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