عنوان

"AND WHAT DOES ANYTHING AT ALL MATTER?":

شماره

LA125286

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

"AND WHAT DOES ANYTHING AT ALL MATTER?":

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Asceticism and the Hermeneutics of Comfort in Hopkins's Terrible Sonnets

نام نخستين پديدآور

Julia Dorothy Yost

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

On one account, the life and work of Gerard Manley Hopkins reveal Catholic asceticism as a grim, life-denying regimen, a form of ethical extremism inimical to the poet's psychological comfort and his creativity. In Hopkins's latter years, runs the logic, stringent self-denial conduced to depression and to poetic chastening, with the so-called Terrible Sonnets exemplifying both. This essay, however, contends that Hopkins's asceticism implemented a hermeneutic productive of both psychological recuperation and literary ingenuity. What Hopkins sought was "comfort" in an archaic sense of that word, as goal-oriented and ethical. Such comfort, as the set of objects and affects associated with asceticism, is thematized throughout the Terrible Sonnets. Tracing the theme will serve to draw out the recuperative hermeneutic of Hopkins's asceticism, which redeems Hopkins's life in Dublin and establishes the consistency of these late sonnets with his seemingly more characteristic earlier work. On one account, the life and work of Gerard Manley Hopkins reveal Catholic asceticism as a grim, life-denying regimen, a form of ethical extremism inimical to the poet's psychological comfort and his creativity. In Hopkins's latter years, runs the logic, stringent self-denial conduced to depression and to poetic chastening, with the so-called Terrible Sonnets exemplifying both. This essay, however, contends that Hopkins's asceticism implemented a hermeneutic productive of both psychological recuperation and literary ingenuity. What Hopkins sought was "comfort" in an archaic sense of that word, as goal-oriented and ethical. Such comfort, as the set of objects and affects associated with asceticism, is thematized throughout the Terrible Sonnets. Tracing the theme will serve to draw out the recuperative hermeneutic of Hopkins's asceticism, which redeems Hopkins's life in Dublin and establishes the consistency of these late sonnets with his seemingly more characteristic earlier work.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

325-348

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

18/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

asceticism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Gerard Manley Hopkins

اصطلاح موضوعی

Terrible Sonnets

اصطلاح موضوعی

Tractarianism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Julia Dorothy Yost

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-01803002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y