Job, Boethius, and epic truth

Author(s)

• Astell, Ann W.

Bibliographic Information

Job, Boethius, and epic truth

Ann W. Astell

Cornell University Press, 1994

Note

Bibliography: p. 217-233

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"Though present-day critics, who concentrate on form, generally find the epic discontinuous in the Middle Ages, Astell argues that the genre persisted as the biblical book of Job and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy were imitated and alluded to as examples throughout the period. . . . The scholarship is prodigious, the argument convincing, and the Christian stance congenial to the subject. Highly recommended."--Choice

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA22775745
• ISBN:
  • 0801429110
• LCCN: 93027265
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ithaca ; London
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 240 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA6231.C83
  • DC20 : 809.1/32
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Boethius, d. 524. De consolatione philosophiae
  • LCSH : Epic literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : Bible. O.T. Job -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • LCSH : Literature, Medieval -- Classical influences
  • LCSH : Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • LCSH : Typology (Theology) in literature
  • LCSH : Imitation in literature
  • LCSH : Bible in literature
  • LCSH : Literary form