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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... language as capable of incarnational power , the poet sees written language as troubled by a more " problematic relation to the poet's liv- ing voice and presence " ( 19 ) . Baumlin argues persuasively that , for Donne , the question of ...
... language as capable of incarnational power , the poet sees written language as troubled by a more " problematic relation to the poet's liv- ing voice and presence " ( 19 ) . Baumlin argues persuasively that , for Donne , the question of ...
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... language . As Dennis Quinn demonstrates in a study of Donne's sermons , Donne's practice as a preacher was mod- eled on the Augustinian " conception of Christian eloquence ” ( 276 ) , according to which the " preacher cooperates in the ...
... language . As Dennis Quinn demonstrates in a study of Donne's sermons , Donne's practice as a preacher was mod- eled on the Augustinian " conception of Christian eloquence ” ( 276 ) , according to which the " preacher cooperates in the ...
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... Language thus consecrated is still human language , as Donne in his sermon says that the consecrated bread " is bread still " ( Sermons 7 : 294 ) ; but in it , as in the sac- rament , Christian readers may say — with Simeon — that they ...
... Language thus consecrated is still human language , as Donne in his sermon says that the consecrated bread " is bread still " ( Sermons 7 : 294 ) ; but in it , as in the sac- rament , Christian readers may say — with Simeon — that they ...
Contents
ONE Sacramental Crossing | 29 |
Two Deigne at My Hands | 58 |
THREE Cunning Elements and Artful Turns | 101 |
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