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- Title
Decomposing but to Recompose: Browning, Biblical Hermeneutics, and the Dramatic Monologue.
- Authors
NERSTAD, ERIN
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the relationship between and work of scholar Benjamin Jowett and Victorian poet Robert Browning. The essay discusses the similarities between Jowett's principles for scriptural hermeneutics and the dramatic monologues of Browning, as well as the Christian hermeneuticist Friedrich Schleiermacher. The author begins her comparison with Browning's "Essay on Shelley," which explores the object and subject relationship.
- Subjects
BROWNING, Robert, 1812-1889; DRAMATIC monologue; BIBLICAL hermeneutics; JOWETT, Benjamin, 1817-1893; SCHLEIERMACHER, Friedrich, 1768-1834; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2012, Vol 50, Issue 4, p543
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2012.0041