John Donne, Undone (Routledge Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9781138025943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 254 str.

Thomas Docherty;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Contemporary criticism of Donne has tended to ignore the historical culture and ideology that conditioned his writings, reinforcing the traditionally accepted model of the poet as a humanist of ethical, cultural and political individualism. In this title, first published in 1986, Thomas Docherty challenges this with a more rigorously theoretical reading of Donne, particularly in relation to the specific culture of the late Renaissance in Europe. Docherty locates Donne s poetry at the crux of the various scientific, legal, domestic and rhetorical discourses that surrounded and informed it. With a broadly post-structuralist approach, this reissue will benefit literature students with an interest in the wider study and context of John Donne s work."

Spis treści

A Note on the Text;  Introduction: Undoing Donne;  Section I: Problems and Paradoxes  1. Displacement and Eccentricity: The Struggle with History  2. The Problem of Women: Authority, Power, Communication  3. Crisis and Hypocrisis: The Failure of Representation  4. Identity and Difference: Individuality Betrayed;  Section II: Therapies and (ir)resolutions  5. Play, Poetry, Prayer: The ‘Vocation’ of ‘Donne’  6. Donne’s Praise of Folly  7. Writing as Therapy: A fishy Tale and a Diet of Worms;  Index

O autorze

Thomas Docherty