Bøger af Stephen Prickett

While attempting to buy Christmas presents in the local Mall, Mark, an art-historian, sees and follows a girl into a second-hand bookshop. She has vanished - but in the window is a paperback bible with Blake's picture, 'Eve Naming the Birds', as cover design. Recognizing the likeness to the girl he has just followed, he tries to buy the book, but finds it not for sale. Further research reveals that no such cover-design was apparently ever produced. Returning to the Mall, he finds the bookshop has itself disappeared. From a door in another shop, he finds himself in Felpham in 1803, temporary home of William Blake - and meets the girl again, who admits that she was indeed Blake's model for Eve. Her unexplained gifts for time-travel are now, however, a threat to herself. There follows a series of mysterious, uncontrolled, and disturbing juxtapositions between modern and early nineteenth-century England - climaxing both in a meeting with Blake, and, more alarmingly, a local lynch-mob. Moreover, what has all this to do with the prophet Jeremiah, whose Michelangelo portrait is now the official bible cover? or with Mr Glass, a night-club and gallery owner, who seems to want to give away original Blake sketches ? This is a contemporary love-story, involving time-travel, art-history, and unexpected twists and shifts of power and perspective - not to mention the fate of the missing drawings for William Hayley's library at the Turret in Felpham.

First published in 1986, Stephen Prickett's Words and the 'Word' has had a major impact among scholars of literature and literary theory as well as among theologians and biblical critics. In this highly-acclaimed book Prickett pursues the question of the relationship between religion and poetics, and in particular the nature of religious language, investigating the hermeneutic, epistemological and linguistic reverberations of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century theories of biblical interpretation.

Originally published in 1980, this is a study of the 'romanticism' of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Their concern with creativity, and the conditions which helped or hindered their own artistic development, produced a new concept of mental growth - a 'modern' view of the mind as organic, active, and unifying.

Modern scholarship has tended to separate literature and theology. Yet it is impossible to understand the ideas of such Victorian theologians as Hare and Maurice, Keble and Newman without reference to contemporary literary criticism - just as it is impossible to understand criticism of the period (and the sensibility it implies) isolated from its theology.

This study focuses on the Bible as a landmark of literature, showing both how it has influenced writers through the ages and how it in turn has been influenced by contemporary literature.