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The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next. Death Be Not Proud explores the precedents of Malebranche's advice by reading John Donne's poetic prayers in the context of what David Marno calls the "art of holy attention." If, in Malebranche's view, attention is a hidden bond between religion and philosophy, devotional poetry is the area where this bond becomes visible. Marno shows that in works like "Death be not proud," Donne's most triumphant poem about the resurrection, the goal is to allow the poem's speaker to experience a given doctrine as his own thought, as an idea occurring to him. But while the thought must feel like an unexpected event for the speaker, the poem itself is a careful preparation for it. And the key to this preparation is attention, the only state in which the speaker can perceive the doctrine as a cognitive gift. Along the way, Marno illuminates why attention is required in Christian devotion in the first place and uncovers a tradition of battling distraction that spans from ascetic thinkers and Church Fathers to Catholic spiritual exercises and Protestant prayer manuals.
Christian poetry, English --- Death in literature. --- Prayer. --- Attention --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Donne, John, --- Early Modern. --- English Renaissance. --- John Donne. --- attention. --- devotion. --- distraction. --- phenomenology. --- poetry. --- prayer. --- spiritual exercise.
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"Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an alternative understanding of writing with a complementary mode of reading: literary engagement, it suggests, is the meeting of strangers, each in a state of isolation. The Renaissance authors discussed in this study did not necessarily work alone or without collaborators, but they were uncertain who would read their writings and whether those readers would understand them. These concerns are represented in their work through tropes, images, and characterizations of isolation. The figure of the isolated, misunderstood, or misjudged poet is a preoccupation that relies on imagining the lives of wandering and complaining youths, eloquent melancholics, exemplary hermits, homeless orphans, and retiring stoics; such figures acknowledge the isolation in literary experience. As a response to this isolation of literary connection, Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an interpretive mode it defines as strange reading: a reading that merges comprehension with indeterminacy and the imaginative work of interpretation with the recognition of historical difference."--
English literature --- History and criticism. --- 1450-1600 --- England --- Aemilia Lanyer. --- Andrew Marvell. --- Francis Bacon. --- John Donne. --- Shakespeare. --- Sidney-Pembroke Circle. --- Thomas Traherne. --- ascetics. --- authorship. --- hermits. --- isolation. --- melancholy. --- obscurity. --- poets. --- solitude.
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For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. In John Donne, Body and Soul, Ramie Targoff offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns. Reappraising Donne's oeuvre in pursuit of the struggles and commitments that connect his most disparate works, Targoff convincingly shows that Donne believed throughout his life in the mutual necessity of body an
Body and soul in literature. --- Christianity and literature --- History --- Donne, John, --- Donn, John, --- Done, John, --- Donn, Dzhon, --- Dann, Dzhon, --- Донн, Джон, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion. --- Philosophy. --- john donne, poetry, poet, literature, classic, canon, priest, religion, spirituality, christianity, soul, theology, nonfiction, devotions upon emergent occasions, epistles, death, resurrection, corpse, afterlife, corporeality, deaths duell, sermon, verse, philosophy, criticism, separation, god, heaven, conversion, faith, eternal, eternity.
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This is a comparative reading of Donne's poetry and prose, which eschews questions of personal or religious sincerity in order to recreate an image of John Donne as a man of many performances.
Poets, English --- Sermons, English --- English poets --- History and criticism. --- Donne, John, --- Donn, John, --- Done, John, --- Donn, Dzhon, --- Dann, Dzhon, --- Донн, Джон, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Church of England. --- Clergy. --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry --- Literary studies: poetry & poets --- Devotions. --- J. L. Austin. --- John Donne. --- early modern period. --- erotic poetry. --- linguistic performativity. --- patronage seeking. --- performance. --- sermon. --- speech act theory.
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What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary search for God. As Furey demonstrates, John Donne, George Herbert, Anne Bradstreet, and others describe inner lives that are surprisingly crowded, teeming with human as well as divine companions. The same early modern writers who bequeathed to us the modern distinction between self and society reveal here a different way of thinking about selfhood altogether. For them, she argues, the self is neither alone nor universally connected, but is forever interactive and dynamically constituted by specific relationships. By means of an analysis equally attentive to theological ideas, social conventions, and poetic form, Furey reveals how poets who understand introspection as a relational act, and poetry itself as a form ideally suited to crafting a relational self, offer us new ways of thinking about selfhood today-and a resource for reimagining both secular and religious ways of being in the world.
Protestant poetry, English --- Christian poetry, English --- Devotional poetry --- Interpersonal relations in literature. --- Authorship in literature. --- Marriage in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Reformation --- History and criticism. --- Anne Bradstreet. --- English Reformation. --- George Herbert. --- Hannah Arendt. --- John Donne. --- Judith Butler. --- poetry. --- relationality. --- subjectivity. --- theology.
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In the seventeenth century many leading poets wrote poems about Christ's infancy, though charm and sweetness were not the leading note. Because these poets were university-educated classicists--many of them also Catholic or Anglican priests--they wrote in an elevated style, with elevated language, and their concerns were deeply theological as well as poetic. In an age of religious controversy, their poems had controversial elements, and because these poems were mostly intended for private use and limited circulation, they were not generally singable hymns of public celebration of Christ's birth. However far from dry academic pieces, these poems offer a wide variety of approaches to both their subject, the infant Jesus, and the means of presenting it. All Wonders in One Sight examines the ways in which early modern English poets understood and accomplished the poetic task of representing Christ as both Child and God. Focusing on the intellectual and theological content of the poems as well as the devotional aims of the poets, Theresa M. Kenney aims to reveal their understandings of divine immanence and the sacrament of the Eucharist."--
Christian poetry, English --- English poetry --- Religious poetry, English --- History andcriticism. --- History and criticism. --- Jesus Christ. --- Jesus Christ --- In literature. --- 1500-1700 --- Christ child. --- Christmas poetry. --- Eucharist. --- George Herbert. --- John Donne. --- John Milton. --- Richard Crashaw. --- Robert South Well. --- baby Jesus. --- metaphysical poetry. --- nativity lyric. --- nativity. --- passion of Christ. --- sacrament.
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This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in this period; while they are in no way 'typical' of any particular preaching agenda or style, they articulate these crises in their most complex forms and expose fault lines in the late Jacobean Church. The study is framed by Donne's two most pointed contributions to the public sphere: his sermon defending James I's Directions to Preachers and his first sermon preached before Charles I in 1625. These two sermons emerge from the crises of controversy, censorship, and identity that converged in the late Jacobean period, and mark Donne's clearest professional interventions in the public debate about the nature and direction of the Church of England. In them, Donne interrogates the boundaries of the public sphere and of his conformity to the institutions, authorities, and traditions governing public debate in that sphere, modelling for his audience an actively engaged conformist identity. Professor JEANNE SHAMI teaches in the Department of English at the University of Regina.
Christian literature, English --- Dissenters, Religious --- Clergy --- Sermons, English --- Clergy members --- Clergymen --- Diocesan clergy --- Ecclesiastics --- Indigenous clergy --- Major orders --- Members of the clergy --- Ministers (Clergy) --- Ministers of the gospel --- Native clergy --- Ordained clergy --- Ordained ministers --- Orders, Major --- Pastors --- Rectors --- Secular clergy --- Religious leaders --- History and criticism. --- History --- Donne, John, --- Donn, John, --- Done, John, --- Donn, Dzhon, --- Dann, Dzhon, --- Донн, Джон, --- Religion. --- England --- Church history --- Prose. --- Censorship. --- Charles I. --- Conformist Identity. --- Controversy. --- Ecclesiastical History. --- Identity. --- Jacobean English Church. --- James I. --- John Donne. --- Public Religious Discourse.
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Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Written by people who spend much of their time thinking in verse and about verse, these original essays herald the return of the early modern lyric as crucial to understanding the present moment of poetry in the United States. This work provides fascinating insights into what today's poets find of special interest in their forebears. In addition, these discussions shed light on the contributors' own poetry and offer compelling clues to how the poetry of the past continues to inform that of the present.
Early modern, 1500-1700. --- English poetry. --- English poetry-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- English poetry --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism --- English literature. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- academic. --- anne bradstreet. --- ben jonson. --- contemporary poetry. --- contemporary poets. --- creative writers. --- creative writing. --- early modern lyric. --- early modern poetry. --- essay anthology. --- essay collection. --- john donne. --- literary history. --- literary. --- lyric poems. --- lyric poetry. --- margaret cavendish. --- mfa. --- milton. --- philip sidney. --- poetic form. --- poetics. --- poetry studies. --- scholarly. --- sestina. --- sonnet.
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"Francoise Massardier-Kenney's translation of Antoine Berman's Toward a Translation Criticism makes available for the first time in the English-speaking world one of the twentieth century's foundational texts in translation studies. Berman's book, published posthumously in France, develops an original concept of "criticism of translation" and a methodology to anchor the practice of this criticism. He demonstrates how the work of translation is a critical process as well as a creative one." "The translation of Berman's text is accompanied by an introduction placing Berman's thought in its intellectual context and by supplementary notes that complete the bibliographic material presented in the French-language version. This study is essential reading for translation studies scholars and for readers interested in the creative literary process, in the nature of literary criticism, and in the philosophy of language. It will also be of interest to John Donne specialists."--BOOK JACKET.
Engelse taal --- Vertaalkritiek. --- Vertaalkritiek van Antoine Berman. --- Vertalen en tolken --- John Donne. --- Vertaling naar het Frans --- Geschiedenis. --- geschiedenis --- vertalingen in het Frans. --- Donne, John, --- Geschiedenis en kritiek. --- English language --- Translating and interpreting --- 820 "16" DONNE, JOHN --- 82.03 --- Germanic languages --- 820 "16" DONNE, JOHN Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--DONNE, JOHN --- Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--DONNE, JOHN --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Translating into French&delete& --- History --- Vertalen. Literaire vertaling. Tolken --- Translating --- Donn, John, --- Done, John, --- Donn, Dzhon, --- Dann, Dzhon, --- Донн, Джон, --- Appreciation --- Translations into French --- History and criticism. --- Translating into French
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Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, 'Queer Faith' reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of ?history and tradition? suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? 'Queer Faith' examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy?from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare?to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberation are themselves attached to nascent racial and economic hierarchies. Because discourses of fidelity and freedom are also discourses on racial and sexual positionality, excavating the complex historical entanglement of faith, race, and eroticism is urgent to contemporary queer debates about normativity, agency, and relationality.
Christian theology. --- Edmund Spenser. --- Francesco Petrarch. --- Jacques Lacan. --- John Calvin. --- John Donne. --- John Milton. --- Judith Butler. --- Martin Luther. --- Mary Wroth. --- Michel Foucault. --- Philip Sidney. --- Protestant Reformation. --- Protestantism. --- Renaissance lyric poetry. --- Saint Augustine. --- Saint Paul. --- William Shakespeare. --- adultery in literature. --- classical friendship. --- confession in literature. --- conversion in literature. --- devotional poetry. --- divorce in literature. --- forgiveness in literature. --- interiority. --- libertine poetry. --- lyric poetry. --- marriage in literature. --- marriage law. --- monogamy in literature. --- new materialism. --- paranoid reading. --- posthumanism. --- postsecularism. --- prayer in literature. --- promiscuity in literature. --- queer theory. --- race and poetry. --- religion and literature. --- reparative reading. --- sexual violence in literature. --- sexuality in literature. --- sonnet sequences. --- sonnets. --- theology in literature.
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