| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Ideas in context ; 104
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Ideas in context ; 104.
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| Note |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed 26 Feb 2013). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Donne, John, 1572-1631. |
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633. |
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Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649. |
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Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695. |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
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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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Lord's Supper in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781107032736 |
| ISBN |
9781139507073 (ebook) |
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1139507079 (ebook) |
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9781107032736 (hardback) |
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1107032733 (hardback) |
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9781139626125 (electronic book) |
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1139626124 (electronic book) |
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9781139616829 |
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113961682X |
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