Touching God : Hopkins and love / / Duc Dau [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Dau Duc
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 148 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 821/.8
• Soggetto topico: Love in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter; Half Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Main Matter; Introduction LOVE AND TOUCH; Reciprocal Touch; Touching and Loving; Chapter One CONFLUENCE AND REFLECTION; Unity in Nature; Touching and Melting; The Lover as Mirror; Face to Face: Reflection and Likeness; The Dim and Distorted Mirror; Chapter Two VIRGIN MARRIAGE AND THE SONG OF SONGS; Public and Private Marriages; Celibacy and Tractarianism; Virgin Marriage and the Society of Jesus; Dolben, Same-Sex Desire and the Song of Songs ; Chapter Three CONCEPTION, PREGNANCY, BIRTHOpenness; Hollows and Holes, Stress and Spirit; Aspiration and Inspiration; Echoes from Hollow Spaces; Uttering Christ; Chapter Four CARESSING, CONVERSING, KISSING; Breath, Speech, Caress; Sympathetic Vibration and the Science of Attraction; Silence and Speech; 'Kisses meant for your mouth'; Chapter Five HOMECOMING; Return to Virgin Terrain; Sex and the City; Home is Where the Sacred Heart Is; Back Matter; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: ‘Touching God: Hopkins and Love’ is the first book devoted to love in the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, illuminating our understanding of him as a romantic poet. Discussions of desire in Hopkins’ poetry have focused on his unrequited attraction to men. In contrast, Duc Dau turns to Luce Irigaray and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s theories of mutual touch to uncover the desire Hopkins cultivated and celebrated: his love for Christ. ‘Touching God’ demonstrates how descriptions of touching played a vital role in the poet’s vision of spiritual eroticism. Forging a new way of reading desire and the body in Hopkins’ writings, the work offers fresh interpretations of his poetry.
• Titolo autorizzato: Touching God
• ISBN: 1-78308-079-5; 1-280-38501-4; 9786613562937; 0-85728-938-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461078303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthem nineteenth century studies.