John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance DiscourseExamining Donne's poetry and his increasingly sophisticated use of rhetoric, Baumlin argues that there are four distinct theories of historical rhetoric - the incarnational, the transcendental, the sceptical and the sophistic - which foster four distinct theories of reading. |
Contents
Rhetoric and Form in Donnes Poetry | 1 |
Reading the Theologies of Language | 39 |
Satire and SelfGuiltinesse | 67 |
Copyright | |
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alchemy Anglican argue argument asserts Augustinian authority becomes belief body boor's Brian Vickers Catholic Christian Church claim classical court criticism culture denies describes dialogue discourse dissoi logoi Donne writes Donne's lyrics Donne's Satyres doth doubt epistemology Essays in Divinity exploration Exstasie fact faith fideism genre genre-concepts Gorgias Hermeticism Horace human imitation incarnate incarnationism incarnationist interpretation Isocrates John Donne Juvenal lady lady's letter libertine linguistic literary logic lovers meaning ment moral nature observes one's paradox perhaps Persius persuasion Petrarchism Plato poem poem's poet poet's poetic polysemy presence problem Pyrrho Pyrrhonist reader reading reality reason religion religious Renaissance rhetoric Roman sacramental satire satirist Satyre III Scripture seeks sense Sermons skepticism Songs and Sonets sophism sophistic soul speak speaker speech spirit stanza suggests Sunne thee theology of language theory things thou tion tradition transcendent truth turn University Press Valediction verbal vocabulary words
References to this book
Literature and Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne Theresa M. DiPasquale No preview available - 2001 |
The Poetics of Transubstantiation: From Theology to Metaphor Douglas Burnham,Enrico Giaccherini No preview available - 2005 |