04384nam 2200733 450 991046488370332120211012005006.00-8122-0940-010.9783/9780812209402(CKB)3710000000086209(OCoLC)871191894(CaPaEBR)ebrary10833619(SSID)ssj0001115691(PQKBManifestationID)12433507(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115691(PQKBWorkID)11084295(PQKB)11622937(MiAaPQ)EBC3442331(MdBmJHUP)muse32982(DE-B1597)449819(DE-B1597)9780812209402(Au-PeEL)EBL3442331(CaPaEBR)ebr10833619(CaONFJC)MIL682571(EXLCZ)99371000000008620920140212h20142014 uy pengurcnu||||||||txtccrMade flesh sacrament and poetics in post-Reformation England /Kimberly Johnson1st ed.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2014.©20141 online resource (246 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51289-2 0-8122-4588-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction. Eucharistic Poetics: The Word Made Flesh --Chapter 1. ‘‘The Bodie and the Letters Both’’: Textual Immanence in The Temple --Chapter 2. Edward Taylor’s ‘‘Menstruous Cloth’’: Structure as Seal in the Preparatory Meditations --Chapter 3. Embracing the Medium: Metaphor and Resistance in John Donne --Chapter 4. Richard Crashaw’s Indigestible Poetics --Chapter 5. Immanent Textualities in a Postsacramental World --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsDuring the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the subject of contentious debate and a nexus of concerns over how the material might embody the sublime and how the absent might be made present. For Kimberly Johnson, the question of how exactly Christ can be present in bread and wine is fundamentally an issue of representation, and one that bears directly upon the mechanics of poetry. In Made Flesh, she explores the sacramental conjunction of text with materiality and word with flesh through the peculiar poetic strategies of the seventeenth-century English lyric. Made Flesh examines the ways in which the works of John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Edward Taylor, and other devotional poets explicitly engaged in issues of signification, sacrament, worship, and the ontological value of the material world. Johnson reads the turn toward interpretively obstructive and difficult forms in the seventeenth-century English lyric as a strategy to accomplish what the Eucharist itself cannot: the transubstantiation of absence into perceptual presence by emphasizing the material artifact of the poem. At its core, Johnson demonstrates, the Reformation debate about the Eucharist was an issue of semiotics, a reimagining of the relationship between language and materiality. The self-asserting flourishes of technique that developed in response to sixteenth-century sacramental controversy have far-reaching effects, persisting from the post-Reformation period into literary postmodernity.Christian poetry, EnglishEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismChristianity and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryLord's Supper in literatureTheology in literatureSymbolism in literatureTransubstantiation in literatureElectronic books.Christian poetry, EnglishHistory and criticism.Christianity and literatureHistoryLord's Supper in literature.Theology in literature.Symbolism in literature.Transubstantiation in literature.821/.409382Johnson Kimberly1971-1031559MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464883703321Made flesh2448960UNINA