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Elegant Jeremiahs (Routledge Revivals) - The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer (Hardcover)
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Elegant Jeremiahs (Routledge Revivals) - The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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Labelled "an elegant Jeremiah" by a journalist of his day, the
urbane Victorian Matthew Arnold must have received the comparison
with the Old Testament prophet uneasily. Writing in the 1970s,
Norman Mailer seems to owe nothing to the biblical for his
description of a long hot wait to buy a cold drink while reporting
on the first voyage to the moon. Yet both Arnold and Mailer, George
P. Landow asserts in this book, are sages, writers in the
nonfiction prose form of secular prophecy, a genre richly
influenced by the episodic structures and harshly critical
attitudes toward society which characterize Old Testament prophetic
literature. In this book, first published in 1986, Landow defines
the genre by exploring its rhetoric, an approach that enables him
to illuminate the relationships among representative works of the
nineteenth century to one another, to biblical, oratorical, and
homiletic traditions, and to such twentieth-century writers as
Lawrence, Didion, and Mailer.
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