Reading sin in the world : the Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the vocation of the responsible reader

Title
  1. Reading sin in the world : the Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the vocation of the responsible reader / Anthony Dykes.
Published by
  1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Author
  1. Dykes, Anthony.

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Description
  1. xx, 273 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of Latin poetry. The Hamartigenia is a didactic poem exploring the origins of evil and how it operates in the world. It is full of echoes and reworkings of earlier poems by Lucretius, Virgil and others, but is also a serious contribution to this important theological issue which was much discussed in Church circles of the day. This is a major new study of the Hamartigenia in the context of Prudentius' work as a whole and is striking for being as seriously interested in its theological as in its literary contribution"--
Subject
  1. Prudentius, 348-
  2. Prudentius, 348- > Criticism and interpretation
  3. Sin in literature
Contents
  1. Machine generated contents note: Introduction: 'Prudentius counts'; 1. The world projects human responsibility; 2. The vocation of a responsible reader: the Biblical strategy; 3. The vocation of the responsible reader: the genre strategy; Conclusion; Appendix A. A note on the title of the Hamartigenia; Appendix B. A brief note on the date and circulation of the Vulgate; Genesis.
Call number
  1. JFE 11-2034
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Dykes, Anthony.
Title
  1. Reading sin in the world : the Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the vocation of the responsible reader / Anthony Dykes.
Imprint
  1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2010051873
ISBN
  1. 9781107004535 (hardback)
  2. 1107004535 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. JFE 11-2034
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