Leslie Brisman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1043047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Brisman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Brisman |
| SIGNATURE | BRISMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jonathan Locke Hart. J. Hillis Miller and the Play of Literature
Studying the Bible in the “Post-Truth” Era
When Jesus tells Pilate “my kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36), he may be reassuring Pilate that Jesus and his followers pose no political threat. In our time, however, the secular idea of “alternate facts” has become something of a new religion and affects both our politics and our academic study. The difficult questions of what constitutes facts or credible critical interpretation of literary facts is particularly vexed when there is a …
From Metaphor to Theology
Theological change suffers under the obligation to seem—and the danger of seeming—both consistent with what has come before and genuinely new. Where does the idea of the suffering servant in Isaiah 53 come from? Leaving aside those acts of warfare and violence against the innocent, which seem more matters of brute aggression than symbolic atonement, we can find well-acknowledged roots for the doctrine of a suffering servant in the practice of sym…
The Wall Is Down
The question considered here is not what are the most interesting or most discussed recent movements in literary criticism, but what are the methodological innovations that might actually contribute to a better understanding of a specific poem? I look in two directions, the one attempting to enrich a poem's setting in its cultural context, the other attempting to complicate a poem's relation to its literary background. For the former, I attempt t…
New Criticism for the Twenty-First Century
Book Review| September 01 2004 New Criticism for the Twenty-First Century Leslie Brisman Leslie Brisman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 529–540. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-25-3-529 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Leslie Brisman; New Criticism for the Twenty-First Century. Poetics Today 1 September 2004; 25 (3): 529–540. …
Walter Benjamin and the Bible. Brian Britt
Article
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 1998
A Parable of Talent
A Parable of Talent
"Brisman, "The Voice of Jacob
The Voice of Jacob
Ruin the Sacred Truths
Romantic Origins
George Herbert and the Skewing of Origins
"At Thy Word"
Byron
Milton's Poetry of Choice and Its Romantic Heirs
Literary Derivations and Critical Deviations
CriticalPriorities
Article
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 1998
CriticalPriorities
"At Thy Word"
Byron
Milton's Poetry of Choice and Its Romantic Heirs
Literary Derivations and Critical Deviations
George Herbert and the Skewing of Origins
Romantic Origins
Ruin the Sacred Truths
The Voice of Jacob
"Brisman, "The Voice of Jacob
A Parable of Talent
A Parable of Talent
Article
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 1998
Walter Benjamin and the Bible. Brian Britt
New Criticism for the Twenty-First Century
Book Review| September 01 2004 New Criticism for the Twenty-First Century Leslie Brisman Leslie Brisman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 529–540. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-25-3-529 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Leslie Brisman; New Criticism for the Twenty-First Century. Poetics Today 1 September 2004; 25 (3): 529–540. …
The Wall Is Down
The question considered here is not what are the most interesting or most discussed recent movements in literary criticism, but what are the methodological innovations that might actually contribute to a better understanding of a specific poem? I look in two directions, the one attempting to enrich a poem's setting in its cultural context, the other attempting to complicate a poem's relation to its literary background. For the former, I attempt t…
From Metaphor to Theology
Theological change suffers under the obligation to seem—and the danger of seeming—both consistent with what has come before and genuinely new. Where does the idea of the suffering servant in Isaiah 53 come from? Leaving aside those acts of warfare and violence against the innocent, which seem more matters of brute aggression than symbolic atonement, we can find well-acknowledged roots for the doctrine of a suffering servant in the practice of sym…
Studying the Bible in the “Post-Truth” Era
When Jesus tells Pilate “my kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36), he may be reassuring Pilate that Jesus and his followers pose no political threat. In our time, however, the secular idea of “alternate facts” has become something of a new religion and affects both our politics and our academic study. The difficult questions of what constitutes facts or credible critical interpretation of literary facts is particularly vexed when there is a …
Jonathan Locke Hart. J. Hillis Miller and the Play of Literature
Philosophy (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Literature (8 works) · History (7 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works)