Literature & Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John DonneDuquesne University Press, 1999 - 338 pages In this innovative study, Theresa DiPasquale examines John Donne's theological and ideological responses to the Reformation debate over the sacraments, and how this debate greatly influenced his view of the written word as visible sign and of the poet as the quasi-divine maker of that sign, and of the reader as its receiver. This study, then, attempts to reconstruct Donne's own, quite nuanced theology of sacrament to provide a guide to his poetics, and, in particular, to his conception of the exchange between author and reader." |
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Page 173
... flea's consecrated blood , he celebrates a sexual Eucharist within the jet cloister of an insect's exoskeleton . For at least one seventeenth century admirer of Donne , poems like " The Flea " seemed uniquely efficacious conduits of ...
... flea's consecrated blood , he celebrates a sexual Eucharist within the jet cloister of an insect's exoskeleton . For at least one seventeenth century admirer of Donne , poems like " The Flea " seemed uniquely efficacious conduits of ...
Page 177
... flea as the virgin womb in which " two bloods " are " mingled " with no " sinne , nor shame nor losse of maidenhead . " Though it " swells with one blood made of two , " she needn't fear that her own womb will , for " this , alas , is ...
... flea as the virgin womb in which " two bloods " are " mingled " with no " sinne , nor shame nor losse of maidenhead . " Though it " swells with one blood made of two , " she needn't fear that her own womb will , for " this , alas , is ...
Page 179
... flea's death tooke life from thee . ( 23-27 ) A woman's honor , his analogy implies , is the reality for which sexual abstinence - physical chastity - is but a tangible sign . An intact " maidenhead " is not the " honor " with which tra ...
... flea's death tooke life from thee . ( 23-27 ) A woman's honor , his analogy implies , is the reality for which sexual abstinence - physical chastity - is but a tangible sign . An intact " maidenhead " is not the " honor " with which tra ...
Contents
ONE Sacramental Crossing | 29 |
Two Deigne at My Hands | 58 |
THREE Cunning Elements and Artful Turns | 101 |
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