John Donne
Published on 25. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-333-67189-4 (ISBN)
Description
John Donne's poetry is provocatively illuminated in this new collection of essays. The recently influential critical methods of historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction are variously employed to explore Donne's ambivalent relationship to language, women, love, self, God and society. New critical approaches do not dominate the volume, however. Older forms of criticism are also represented, so that the old and the new may illuminate and interrogate each other. The introduction explicitly foregrounds some of the key differences and continuities between old and new versions of literary criticism, exploring the ideas and assumptions underlying each and offering insights into Donne in relation to them.
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Series
Edition
1998
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
248 p.
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
314 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-67189-4 (9780333671894)
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Person
ANDREW MOUSLEY is Lecturer in Literature at Bolton Institute.
Content
Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; A.Mousley.- 'Oh, Let Mee Not Serve So': The Politics of Love in Donne's Elegies; A.Guibbory.- 'Nothing Sooner Broke': Donne's Songs and Sonnets as Self-Consuming Artifact; T.Rajan.- John Donne's World of Desire; C.Belsey.- Small Change: Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics; B.Estrin.- The Lyric in the Field of Information: Autopoiesis and History in Donne's Songs and Sonnets; R.Halpern.- 'Darke Texts Needs Notes': Versions of Self in Donne's Verse Epistles; D.Aers and G.Kress.- Matrix as Metaphor: Midwifery and the Conception of Voice; E.Harvey.- Masculine Persuasive Force: Donne and Verbal Power; S.Fish.- The 'Figura' of the Martyr in John Donne's Sermons; N.Wright.- The Fearful Accommodations of John Donne; W.Kerrigan.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.