English Renaissance literature and contemporary theory :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
sublime objects of theology /
First Statement of Responsibility
Paul Cefalu.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
[ix], 217 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
The Idolatrous State of Exception in John Donne's Poetry and Prose -- God's Extimacy: Divine Excess and Baroque Monads in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw -- Tarrying with Chaos: Radical Evil and John Milton's Paradise Lost -- God beyond Essence: The Event of Love in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas -- Traherne.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Cefalu offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture. The book argues that when selected Early Modern devotional poets set out to represent subject-God relations, they often encounter some sublime aspect of God that, in Slovenian-Lacanian terms, seems "Other" to himself. This divine Other, while sometimes presented directly as a void or empty place, is more often filled in and presented instead as some form of divine excess.
Text of Note
While Donne, and to a lesser extent Traherne, disavow those numinous aspects of God that might subsist beneath such excesses, Crashaw, and especially Milton, attempt to represent the intimate relationship between any creature's and God's intrinsic alterity. Cefalu introduces new ways of theorizing not only seventeenth-century religious ideologies, but also the nature of Early Modern subjectivity."--Jacket.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Crashaw, Richard,1613?-1649-- Religion.
Donne, John,1572-1631-- Religion.
Milton, John,1608-1674-- Religion.
Traherne, Thomas,-1674-- Religion.
Crashaw, Richard, 1613-1649
Crashaw, Richard,(1612?-1649)-- Religion.
Crashaw, Richard,1613?-1649.
Crashaw, Richard.
Donne, John, 1572-1631
Donne, John,(1572-1631)-- Religion.
Donne, John,1572-1631.
Donne, John.
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Milton, John,(1608-1674)-- Religion.
Milton, John,1608-1674.
Milton, John.
Traherne, Thomas, 1637-1674
Traherne, Thomas,(1637-1674)-- Religion.
Traherne, Thomas,-1674.
Traherne, Thomas.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Christian poetry, English-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
Ontology in literature.
Philosophy, Modern.
Poets, English-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- Philosophy.
Theology in literature.
Christian poetry, English-- Early modern.
English literature-- Early modern.
Littérature anglaise-- 16e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise-- 17e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Metaphysical poets
Ontologie-- Dans la littérature.
Ontology in literature.
Philosophy, Modern.
Poésie religieuse anglaise-- 16e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Poésie religieuse anglaise-- 17e siècle-- Histoire et critique.