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Author : Siobhán Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Liminality in literature
ISBN : 1315569612
Author : Siobhán Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317173502
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donne’s Metempsychosis. In contrast, this study of Metempsychosis re-evaluates the poem as one of the most vital and energetic of Donne’s canon. Siobhán Collins appraises Metempsychosis for its extraordinary openness to and its inventive portrayal of conflict within identity. She situates this ludic verse as a text alert to and imbued with the Elizabethan fascination with the processes and properties of metamorphosis. Contesting the pervasive view that the poem is incomplete, this study illustrates how Metempsychosis is thematically linked with Donne’s other writings through its concern with the relationship between body and soul, and with temporality and transformation. Collins uses this genre-defying verse as a springboard to contribute significantly to our understanding of early modern concerns over the nature and borders of human identity, and the notion of selfhood as mutable and in process. Drawing on and contributing to recent scholarly work on the history of the body and on sexuality in the early modern period, Collins argues that Metempsychosis reveals the oft-violent processes of change involved in the author’s personal life and in the intellectual, religious and political environment of his time. She places the poem’s somatic representations of plants, beasts and humans within the context of early modern discourses: natural philosophy, medical, political and religious. Collins offers a far-reaching exploration of how Metempsychosis articulates philosophical inquiries that are central to early modern notions of self-identity and moral accountability, such as: the human capacity for autonomy; the place of the human in the ’great chain of being’; the relationship between cognition and embodiment, memory and selfhood; and the concept of wonder as a distinctly human phenomenon.
Author : Lara Crowley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192554956
Manuscript Matters illuminates responses to some of John Donne's most elusive texts by his contemporary audiences. Since examples of seventeenth-century literary criticism prove somewhat rare and frequently ambiguous, this book emphasizes a critical framework rarely used for exhibiting early readers' exegeses of literary texts: the complete manuscripts containing them. Many literary manuscripts that include poems by Donne and his contemporaries were compiled during their lifetimes, often by members of their circles. For this reason, and because various early modern poems and prose works satirize topical events and prominent figures in highly coded language, attempting to understand early literary interpretations proves challenging but highly valuable. Compilers, scribes, owners, and other readers–men and women who shared in Donne's political, religious, and social contexts–offer clues to their literary responses within a range of features related to the construction and subsequent use of the manuscripts. This study's findings call us to investigate more extensively and systematically how certain early manuscripts were constructed through analysis of such features as scripts, titles, sequence of contents, ascriptions, and variant diction. While such studies can throw light on many early modern texts, exploring artefacts containing Donne's works proves particularly useful because more of his poetry circulated in manuscript than did that of any other early modern poet. Manuscript Matters engages Donne's satiric, lyric, and religious poetry, as well as his prose paradoxes and problems. Analysing his texts within their manuscript contexts enables modern readers to interpret Donne's poetry and prose through an early modern lens.
Author : Myra E. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351396776
Myra Wright takes ecocritical studies on an interdisciplinary turn toward the water with her new research monograph, The Poetics of Angling in Early Modern England. Identifying the lively presence of both literal and metaphorical images of sport fishing in all kinds of early modern writing, this book aims to instill deep sympathy between the art of angling and the art of writing, and for the centrality of fish in early modern conceptions of humanity.
Author : Dr Siobhán Collins
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472402837
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donne’s Metempsychosis. In contrast, this study of Metempsychosis re-evaluates the poem as one of the most vital and energetic of Donne’s canon. Siobhán Collins appraises Metempsychosis for its extraordinary openness to and its inventive portrayal of conflict within identity. She situates this ludic verse as a text alert to and imbued with the Elizabethan fascination with the processes and properties of metamorphosis. Contesting the pervasive view that the poem is incomplete, this study illustrates how Metempsychosis is thematically linked with Donne’s other writings through its concern with the relationship between body and soul, and with temporality and transformation. Collins uses this genre-defying verse as a springboard to contribute significantly to our understanding of early modern concerns over the nature and borders of human identity, and the notion of selfhood as mutable and in process. Drawing on and contributing to recent scholarly work on the history of the body and on sexuality in the early modern period, Collins argues that Metempsychosis reveals the oft-violent processes of change involved in the author’s personal life and in the intellectual, religious and political environment of his time. She places the poem’s somatic representations of plants, beasts and humans within the context of early modern discourses: natural philosophy, medical, political and religious. Collins offers a far-reaching exploration of how Metempsychosis articulates philosophical inquiries that are central to early modern notions of self-identity and moral accountability, such as: the human capacity for autonomy; the place of the human in the ‘great chain of being’; the relationship between cognition and embodiment, memory and selfhood; and the concept of wonder as a distinctly human phenomenon.
Author : Patrick J. McGrath
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487505325
Challenging contemporary perceptions of the ascetic in the early modern period, this book explores asceticism as a vital site of religious conflict and literary creativity, rather than merely a vestige of a medieval past.
Author : John Donne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4131376
Author : William A. Oram
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 040419222X
Author : William Drummond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3287610
Author : David Masson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : OXFORD:300075867
Author : William Clark Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015561079
Author : Manchester University Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526117371
This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors' poetics and thought.
Author : Frank Walter Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015004868710
Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : IND:30000053409342
Shepard shows how the human relationship with animals has altered over time: as we have prospered, they have vanished.
Author : John Donne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070984840