This is a decommissioned version of ERA which is running to enable completion of migration processes. All new collections and items and all edits to existing items should go to our new ERA instance at https://ualberta.scholaris.ca - Please contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca for assistance!
- 315 views
- 739 downloads
Vision and Poetic Speech in Amos
-
- Author(s) / Creator(s)
-
My intention in this paper is not to examine the conventions and techniques whereby biblical poetry is defined and ordered, but its capacity for subversion, its stylistic openness. The subject is the anti-poetic in poetry, its artlessness. The passages on which I focus may not perhaps be considered poetry: they are visions, communicated simply. Yet precisely as visions, reported barely, naively, they contribute to the poetics of Amos. What is the relation between the prophet's awe and linguistic beauty?1 How is the incommensurable accommodated in a language that touches on silence?
-
- Date created
- 1987
-
- Subjects / Keywords
-
- Type of Item
- Article (Published)
-
- License
- Attribution 4.0 International