Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England / / Sophie Read [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Read Sophie <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 821.009/382
• Soggetto topico: English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Transubstantiation in literature; Religion in literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Southwell and paradox -- Donne and punning -- Herbert and Metanoia -- Crashaw and metonymy -- Vaughan and synecdoche -- Milton and metaphor.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from a literal to a figurative understanding of the phrase 'this is my body' exerted a powerful imaginative pull on successive generations. To illustrate this, she examines in detail the work of Southwell, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan and Milton, who between them represent a broad range of doctrinal and confessional positions, from the Jesuit Southwell to Milton's heterodox Puritanism. Individually, each chapter examines how Eucharistic ideas are expressed through a particular rhetorical trope; together, they illuminate the continued importance of the Eucharist's transformation well into the seventeenth century - not simply as a matter of doctrine, but as a rhetorical and poetic mode.
• Altri titoli varianti: Eucharist & the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England
• Titolo autorizzato: Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England
• ISBN: 1-139-61124-0; 1-107-23809-9; 1-139-60940-8; 1-139-61310-3; 1-139-62240-4; 1-283-98672-8; 1-139-62612-4; 1-139-50707-9; 1-139-61682-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786033803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ideas in context ; ; 104.