THE SONG OF SONGS: A PLEA FOR AN AESTHETIC READING
THE SONG OF SONGS: A PLEA FOR AN AESTHETIC READING
Author(s): Robert D. MILLER IISubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Universitatea Babes-Bolyai - Centrul de Studii Biblice
Keywords: Song of Songs; aesthetics; literary analysis; poetics
Summary/Abstract: Although recent scholarship on the Song of Songs has turned to literary approaches, these have not reckoned with literary criticism’s return to aesthetics. This essay outlines current theory of aesthetic criticism and suggests ways in which it could be applied to the Song of Songs.
Journal: Sacra Scripta
- Issue Year: X/2012
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 113-119
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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