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@article{ART000974155},
author={Woosung Kang},
title={A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2005},
number={53},
pages={149-171}

TY - JOUR
AU - Woosung Kang
TI - A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2005
VL - null
IS - 53
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 149
EP - 171
SN - 1598-3021
AB - Unlike traditional genre conception, the typology in American Puritanism capitalizes on the literal as well as symbolic connection between biblical figures and the historical events of colonial New England. Intent on the allegorical implication of typology, I explore poetic achievements of Puritan poets like Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, especially the 'epistemological skepticism' of their meditative poems. Allegory, often suppressed by strong typological drive of Puritan hermeneutics, turns out to facilitate the moment of implosion within the structure of that very tight typology. Bradstreet's silently-defiant female personae and Taylor's ever-doubting writership both represent the poetics of allegorical implosion in the fiction of Puritan typology. Allegorical indeterminacy in the 17th century Puritan poetics marks the triumph of the literary in American literatures against religious literalism.
KW - Allegory;Typology;Implosion;American Puritanism;Indeterminacy;Literalism
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Woosung Kang. (2005). A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 53, 149-171.

Woosung Kang. 2005, "A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, no.53, pp.149-171.

Woosung Kang "A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 53 pp.149-171 (2005) : 149.

Woosung Kang. A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism. 2005; 53 : 149-171.

Woosung Kang. "A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University no.53(2005) : 149-171.

Woosung Kang. A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 53, 149-171.

Woosung Kang. A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2005; 53 149-171.

Woosung Kang. A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism. 2005; 53 : 149-171.

Woosung Kang. "A Poetics of Implosion: Typology and Allegory in American Puritanism" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University no.53(2005) : 149-171.