LEADER 04523nam 2200781 450 001 9910789041703321 005 20211012005006.0 010 $a0-8122-0940-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812209402 035 $a(CKB)3710000000086209 035 $a(OCoLC)871191894 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10833619 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001115691 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12433507 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115691 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11084295 035 $a(PQKB)11622937 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32982 035 $a(DE-B1597)449819 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812209402 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442331 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10833619 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682571 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442331 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000086209 100 $a20140212h20142014 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMade flesh $esacrament and poetics in post-Reformation England /$fKimberly Johnson 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51289-2 311 0 $a0-8122-4588-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Eucharistic Poetics: The Word Made Flesh --$tChapter 1. ??The Bodie and the Letters Both??: Textual Immanence in The Temple --$tChapter 2. Edward Taylor?s ??Menstruous Cloth??: Structure as Seal in the Preparatory Meditations --$tChapter 3. Embracing the Medium: Metaphor and Resistance in John Donne --$tChapter 4. Richard Crashaw?s Indigestible Poetics --$tChapter 5. Immanent Textualities in a Postsacramental World --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aDuring 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. 606 $aChristian poetry, English$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristianity and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aLord's Supper in literature 606 $aTheology in literature 606 $aSymbolism in literature 606 $aTransubstantiation in literature 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aChristian poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLord's Supper in literature. 615 0$aTheology in literature. 615 0$aSymbolism in literature. 615 0$aTransubstantiation in literature. 676 $a821/.409382 700 $aJohnson$b Kimberly$f1971-$01576551 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789041703321 996 $aMade flesh$93854417 997 $aUNINA