John Donne and Baroque Allegory: The Aesthetics of Fragmentation

ISBN-13: 9781107195806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 236 str.

Hugh Grady

Opis

Provides a new appreciation of John Donne through the lens of Walter Benjamin's critical theory of baroque allegory.

Recenzje

'[John Donne and Baroque Allegory] offers a number of new perspectives, introducing, for example, a series of early modern and more contemporary European voices to Donne studies … As such, this is a book which will no doubt play an important role in inspiring future creative interventions in Donne studies.' Emma Rhatigan, Modern Language Review

Spis treści

1. Walter Benjamin and John Donne: constellations of past and present; 2. The Anniversaries as baroque allegory: mourning, idealization, and the resistance to unity; 3. Donne's The Songs and Sonnets: living in a fragmented world; 4. Allegorical objects and metaphysical conceits: thinking about Donne's tropes with Benjamin; 5. The metaphysics of correspondence or a fragmented world? Baroque poetics in the seventeenth century; 6. Conclusion.