Gender and the Sacred Self in John DonneUniversity of Delaware Press, 1999 - 223 страници This first book-length feminist study of Donne argues that his sacred subject-position is ambivalently and illustratively invested in cultural archetypes of mothers, daughters, and brides. The chapters focus on baptism, marriage, and death as key moments in Donne's and his culture's construction of the gendered soul. |
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... poem involves a failed attempt to empower the sacred poet and the divine poem , and this series of failures pivots around the muse whom Donne recasts as a holy mother . " In the opening lines of this sonnet , Donne offers the poem to ...
... poem involves a failed attempt to empower the sacred poet and the divine poem , and this series of failures pivots around the muse whom Donne recasts as a holy mother . " In the opening lines of this sonnet , Donne offers the poem to ...
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... poem is not sufficient . The speaker's identification of himself with the Christian com- munity of the church is likewise unsatisfactory . He suggests at the end of the poem that " we " shall be free of death , and that " our best men ...
... poem is not sufficient . The speaker's identification of himself with the Christian com- munity of the church is likewise unsatisfactory . He suggests at the end of the poem that " we " shall be free of death , and that " our best men ...
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... poem reads , in diction and syn- tax , as a series of repetitions of the same central idea , and attempts to separate and elevate the " real " parts of the poem are an attempt to deny the stability of sameness which the poem's formal ...
... poem reads , in diction and syn- tax , as a series of repetitions of the same central idea , and attempts to separate and elevate the " real " parts of the poem are an attempt to deny the stability of sameness which the poem's formal ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Second Birth | 26 |
Joyes Bonfire | 71 |
Авторско право | |
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