| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) |
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Ideas in context ; 104 |
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Ideas in context ; 104
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Introduction; Eucharist and the poetic imagination; History of a controversy: rhetorical reformations; Eucharistic figuration: Luther, Zwingli, Calvin; Types of ambiguity: The Book of Common Prayer, 1549-1559; Writing after the Reformation: 1559-1674; Eucharist troped; Chapter 1 Southwell and paradox; Paradox, anonymity and the Jesuit aesthetic; Southwell's literary apostolate; Body as text: imitation and martyrdom; Text as body: writing, relic, sacrament; Poetry and the failure of sacramental substitution |
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Chapter 2 Donne and punningThe sacramental pun; Love and the eucharist; Implicit sacramentalism: rhetoric and divinity; Transubstantiating transubstantiation; Chapter 3 Herbert and metanoia; The metanoietic impulse: correction and deception; The divided voice; The divine voice; Metanoia and the eucharist; Submissive equivocation: Herbert's mysterious eucharist; Chapter 4 Crashaw and metonymy; Criticising Crashaw: a matter of taste; Outrageous appetites: the erotics of the edible Christ; Crashaw's self-consuming art; Metonymy and Christianity; Communion in one kind: eucharistic accommodation |
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Chapter 5 Vaughan and synecdocheThe synecdoche of the flashing flint; Scriptural poetics and the Book of Nature; Anglican recusancy and the Book of Common Prayer; 'Vitall gold': communions of light; Chapter 6 Milton and metaphor; Metaphor and Christianity; The eucharist in paradise; Transubstantiating transubstantiation II; Covenant and sacrament; Eve's misreadings: of sacramental symbols and the fruit; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Primary; Secondary; Index |
| Summary |
A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work |
| Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed 26 Feb 2013) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649 fast |
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Donne, John, 1572-1631 fast |
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633 fast |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast |
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Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595 fast |
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Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695 fast |
| Subject |
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Christian poetry, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Lord's Supper in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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Christian poetry, English -- Early modern
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English poetry -- Early modern
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Lord's Supper in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139507073 |
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1139507079 |
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9781107032736 |
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1107032733 |
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9781283986724 |
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