| Description |
xi, 233 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
New casebooks |
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New casebooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Andrew Mousley -- 1. 'Oh, let mee not serve so': The Politics of Love in Donne's Elegies / Achsah Guibbory -- 2. 'Nothing sooner broke': Donne's Songs and Sonets as Self-Consuming Artifact / Tilottama Rajan -- 3. John Donne's Worlds of Desire / Catherine Belsey -- 4. Small Change: Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics / Barbara Estrin -- 5. The Lyric in the Field of Information: Autopoiesis and History in Donne's Songs and Sonnets / Richard Halpern -- 6. 'Darke texts need notes': Versions of Self in Donne's Verse Epistles / David Aers and Gunther Kress -- 7. Matrix as Metaphor: Midwifery and the Conception of Voice / Elizabeth Harvey -- 8. Masculine Persuasive Force: Donne and Verbal Power / Stanley Fish -- 9. The Figura of the Martyr in John Donne's Sermons / Nancy Wright -- 10. The Fearful Accommodations of John Donne / William Kerrigan |
| Summary |
John Donne's writing 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 the adventure of Donne's generically versatile writing. New theoretical approaches do not dominate the volume, however. Older forms of criticism are revisited, so that the old and the new may illuminate and interrogate each other. The introduction identifies some of the key differences between old and new versions of literary criticism, and offers insights into Donne on the basis of their contrasting locations/dislocations of the literary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index |
| Subject |
Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Author |
Mousley, Andy, 1959-
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| ISBN |
0312216408 (US) |
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0333671880 |
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0333671899 (paperback) |
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