Based in part on thesis--Yale.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258).

1. A tension in Bunyan's aesthetic -- The Pilgrim's Progress: Some problems of origin and form -- Bunyan's apology as aesthetic brief -- The episode of the Burning Mountain -- The relevance of Puritan hermeneutics and devotion -- 2. Puritan hermeneutics -- The one sense of scripture -- The case against Mythos: The issue of authority -- The Word as Logos: Implications for poetry and parable -- Revelatory Word: A note on Puritan semantics -- 3. The house of interpreter -- Faith, the Word, and the Holy Spirit -- Example and precept, promise and threatening: The seven scenes -- 4. Exemplary history: Parabolic drama and character-as-example in The Pilgrim's Progress -- The idea of exemplary history -- Parabolic drama in The Pilgrim's Progress -- Character-as-example in The Pilgrim's Progress -- 5. The analogy of faith and the unity of The Pilgrim's Progress -- 6. Two divergent traditions in Puritan meditation -- The line of Joseph Hall -- Heavenly meditation -- 7. Meditation and Bunyan's imaginative realism -- Bunyan and the imagination -- Biblical metaphor in two episodes of The Pilgrim's Progress -- Imagery and realism in The Pilgrim's Progress -- 8. Occasional meditation and The Pilgrim's Progress -- Occasional meditation in Puritan practice -- Occasional meditation in The Pilgrim's Progress -- 9. Meditation on experience and The Pilgrim's Progress -- The rationale of meditation on experience -- The methodology of meditation on experience -- Meditation on experience in The Pilgrim's Progress -- 10. The interior voice in meditation and aural features of The Pilgrim's Progress.