LEADER 04995nam 2200745 450 001 9910787486603321 005 20230205051324.0 010 $a1-4426-5599-2 010 $a1-4426-2343-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442623439 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329272 035 $a(EBL)3296983 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001469254 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11844659 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001469254 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11528503 035 $a(PQKB)11279539 035 $a(DE-B1597)465660 035 $a(OCoLC)944178853 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442623439 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670150 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256664 035 $a(OCoLC)958571279 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670150 035 $a(OCoLC)1056554454 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107005 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329272 100 $a20160914h19861986 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHopkins, the self, and God /$fWalter J. Ong 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1986. 210 4$dİ1986 215 $a1 online resource (196 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-7413-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tI. PARTICULARITY AND SELF IN HOPKINS' VICTORIAN CONSCIOUSNESS -- $tII. SELF AND DECISION IN ASCETIC TRADITION -- $tIII. ACADEMIC THEOLOGY AND HOPKINS' SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS -- $tIV. MODERNITY: FAITH BEYOND SCANDAL -- $tREFERENCES -- $tINDEX 330 $aGeneral Manley Hopkins was not alone among Victorians in his attention to the human self and to the particularities of things in the world around him, where he savoured the ?selving or ?inscape? of each individual existent. But the intensity of his interest in the self, as a focus of exuberant joy as well as sometimes of anguish, both in his poetry and his prose, marks him out as unique even among his contemporaries. In these studies Professor Ong explores some previously unexamined reasons for Hopkins? uniqueness, including unsuspected connections between nineteenth-century sensibility and certain substructures of Christian belief.Hopkins was less interested in self-discovery or self-concept than in what might be called the confrontational or obtrusive self ? the ?I,? ultimately nameless, that each person wakes up to in the morning to find simply there, directly or indirectly present in every moment of consciousness. Hopkins? concern with the self grew out of a nineteenth-century sensibility which was to give birth to modernity and postmodernity, and which in his case as a Jesuit was especially nourished by the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola, concerned at root with the self, free choice, and free self-giving. It was also nourished by the Christian belief in the Three Persons in One God, central to Hopkins? theology courses and personal speculation, and very notable in the Special Exercises. Hopkins appropriated and intensified his Christian beliefs with new nineteenth-century awareness: he writes of the ?selving? in God of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Hopkins? pastoral work, particularly in the confessional, dealing directly with other selves in terms of their free decisions, also gave further force to his preoccupation with the self and freedom. ?What I do,? he writes, ?is me.?Besides being concerned with the self, the most particular of particulars and the paradigm of all sense of ?presence,? the Spiritual Exercises in many ways attend to other particularities with an insistence that has drawn lengthy and rather impassioned commentary from the postmodern literary theorist Roland Barthes.Hopkins? distinctive and often precocious attention to the self and freedom puts him theologically far ahead of many of his fellow Catholics and other fellow Victorians, and gives him his permanent relevance to the modern and postmodern world. 606 $aChristian poetry, English$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCatholics$zEngland$xIntellectual life 606 $aPoetry$xPsychological aspects 606 $aSelf in literature 606 $aGod in literature 607 $aEngland$2fast 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristian poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCatholics$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aPoetry$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 615 0$aGod in literature. 676 $a821/.8 700 $aOng$b Walter J.$0142871 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787486603321 996 $aHopkins, the self, and God$9972029 997 $aUNINA