Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry

by Netzley, Ryan

• ISBN13: 9781442642812
• ISBN10: 1442642815
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781442694927
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-27
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
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Summary

Speaking to central questions about .sacramental and Eucharistic poetry in the Early Modern period, the high-quality, Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry advances a fresh theoretical understanding of how reading and desire work, its suggestions unquestionably have the potential to contribute in meaningful ways, to effecting substantive change in theoretical and pedagogical practices.' David Ainsworth, Department of English, University of Alabama Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Desiring Sacraments and Reading Real Presence in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry	p. 3
Take and Taste, Take and Read: Desiring, Reading, and Taking Presence in George Herbert's The Temple	p. 23
Reading Indistinction: Desire, Indistinguishability, and Metonymic Reading in Richard Crashaw's Religious Lyrics	p. 66
Loving Fear: Affirmative Anxiety in John Donne's	p. 106
Desiring-What Has Already Happened: Reading Prolepsis and Immanence in John Milton's Early Poems and Paradise Regained	p. 149
Conclusion: Reading Is Love	p. 190
Notes	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 279
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