Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism : When God Left the World.
Material type: TextSeries: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (167 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780804779555
- 0804779554
- English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Christian poetry, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Rites and ceremonies in literature
- Aesthetics, Modern -- 17th century
- God in literature
- Ritual in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Aesthetics, Modern
- Christian poetry, English -- Early modern
- Christianity and literature
- English poetry -- Early modern
- God in literature
- Rites and ceremonies in literature
- Ritual in literature
- England
- Christliche Literatur
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Religion Motiv
- Gott Motiv
- Ritus Motiv
- Englisch
- 1500-1700
- 820.9/3823
- PR545
- HI 1151
Print version record.
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I -- POESIA MYSTICA; PART II -- JUSTITIA MYSTICA; PART III -- AMOR MYSTICUS; Afterword; REFERENCE MATTER; Notes; Index; Cultural Memory in the Present; 1 -- Sacramental Poetics; 2 -- Mystical and Political Bodies; 3 -- Shakespeare's Tragic Mass: Craving Justice; 4 -- Milton's Cosmic Body: Doing Justice; 5 -- Donne in Love: Communion of the Flesh; 6 -- Herbert's Praise: Communion in Conversation; The Eucharist; Idolatry: Images and Imagination; Sacrifice and Murder; Othello and Justice; Paradisal Communion.
Unspeakable SalvationResurrecting Love; Mystical Poetry and Theology; The Theology of Conversation; "Love III."
This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-177) and index.
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