LEADER 03614nam 22006735 450 001 9910148634803321 005 20200424112023.0 010 $a0-226-41602-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226416021 035 $a(CKB)3710000000920206 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4729364 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001605707 035 $a(DE-B1597)524192 035 $a(OCoLC)1125185054 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226416021 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000920206 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeath Be Not Proud $eThe Art of Holy Attention /$fDavid Marno 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (328 pages) 225 0 $aClass 200: New Studies in Religion 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-226-41597-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Pistis of the Poem -- $t2. The Thanksgiving Machine -- $t3. Distracted Prayers -- $t4. Attention Exercises -- $t5. Extentus -- $t6. Sarcasmos -- $t7. The Spiritual Body -- $tCoda: The Extent of Attention -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThe seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next. Death Be Not Proud explores the precedents of Malebranche's advice by reading John Donne's poetic prayers in the context of what David Marno calls the "art of holy attention." If, in Malebranche's view, attention is a hidden bond between religion and philosophy, devotional poetry is the area where this bond becomes visible. Marno shows that in works like "Death be not proud," Donne's most triumphant poem about the resurrection, the goal is to allow the poem's speaker to experience a given doctrine as his own thought, as an idea occurring to him. But while the thought must feel like an unexpected event for the speaker, the poem itself is a careful preparation for it. And the key to this preparation is attention, the only state in which the speaker can perceive the doctrine as a cognitive gift. Along the way, Marno illuminates why attention is required in Christian devotion in the first place and uncovers a tradition of battling distraction that spans from ascetic thinkers and Church Fathers to Catholic spiritual exercises and Protestant prayer manuals. 410 0$aClass 200, new studies in religion. 606 $aChristian poetry, English$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDeath in literature 606 $aPrayer 606 $aAttention$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 610 $aEarly Modern. 610 $aEnglish Renaissance. 610 $aJohn Donne. 610 $aattention. 610 $adevotion. 610 $adistraction. 610 $aphenomenology. 610 $apoetry. 610 $aprayer. 610 $aspiritual exercise. 615 0$aChristian poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 615 0$aPrayer. 615 0$aAttention$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a821.3 700 $aMarno$b David, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0852857 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910148634803321 996 $aDeath Be Not Proud$92077206 997 $aUNINA