John Donne and Baroque Allegory

Name: John Donne and Baroque Allegory
Author: Hugh Grady

The Aesthetics of Fragmentation

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Gebonden, 236 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2017

ISBN13: 9781107195806

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John Donne has been one of the most controversial poets in the history of English literature, his complexity and intellectualism provoking both praise and censure. In this major re-assessment of Donne's poetry, Hugh Grady argues that his work can be newly appreciated in our own era through Walter Benjamin's theory of baroque allegory. Providing close readings of The Anniversaries, The Songs and Sonnets, and selected other lyrics, this study reveals Donne as being immersed in the aesthetic of fragmentation that define both the baroque and the postmodernist aesthetics of today. Synthesizing cultural criticism and formalist analysis, Grady illuminates Donne afresh as a great poet for our own historical moment.

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ISBN13:9781107195806

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Gebonden

Aantal pagina's:236

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

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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.

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